Nic, the day of his (successful) PhD defence

I finally got developed a roll of very well expired Portra (like about

2006, if I remember correctly), shot in my Mamiyaflex. It included

this picture of Nic when he visited me a couple of hours before he had

his PhD defence last winter. He was successful.



This is a crop, about one-sixth of the image.



This was a test of some software I bought two years ago and hated; the

software, PortraitPro made real people into embalmed corpses, I

thought. Testing today was to try and find a way to be able to use

it. And using it very very subtley, it isn't bad, as here.