Minnie at eight

It's Jan 18th which some people -- jocularly? -- call Old Old
Christmas Day. (Old Christmas Day = Jan 6th; Old Old Christmas Day =
Jan 18th.) It's sort of late to have the Christmas tree still up. In
fact, it's considered bad luck by some people. But, what with our
Christmas being a little interrupted this year, we still have ours
standing in the corner of the front room. It's not bad luck for us;
we're just getting the most of it.

This picture was taken a couple of evenings ago with an Olympus XA,
one of the XA's I own that lack a proper flash sync speed. Thus every
flashed shot is exposed for the ambient light plus the flash whichis
really calculated for about six-ten feet. Anything really close, like
Minnie here, is washed out. It took a bit of burning to get a
semblance of her actual colour.

Fujicolor 100 film which I wish I'd bought more of -- it reminds me of
Reala. But I think I've used the last roll of my stash.