Alan's great beard

Alan had just finished raking a lawnful of leaves and I asked to

photograph his beard. Many's the slip 'twixt cup and lip, and the

race is not always to the swift . . . and maybe you can come up with a

few more proverbial brush-offs of failure. In any case, the camera

(Olympus Pen D3) didn't do quite what I expected it to do. A light

leak extraordinaire got onto my film and this is what I was left with

after some selective-colour filtration to get a b&w image from the

original C41 colour film.



The light leak is odd and I haven't ruled out lab error rather than

camera failure. The leak was a bright red light flashed from one edge

of the film. I will see with the next roll whether I get it again.

These three frames are lined up on the negative as they show here, but

they were scanned at the lab in pairs and I ended up moving them

somewhat, cutting corners more sharply than on the negative.



The film was one of several rolls of 2007-expired Life-brand (= Fuji)

800 film that a friend gave me a few weeks ago.