K getting hooded

I try every year to attend the Convocation at the university I work

in, to be on stage when students from my department receive their

degrees. Yesterday, I spent the day there for the two sessions that

included students from the Arts faculty. I was in the small crowd of

berobed faculty on the stage and I was sneaking shots of students I

knew. I took several dozen pictures but wasn't careful about white

balance, or even ISO rating (which of course means dynamic range) and

the pictures I got suffered pretty badly as colour shots. But, in

that harsh light, often one or another colour channel is more

pleasant, so I converted them to b&w.



K was a student in my department and, although I never taught her, I

was an official examiner of her thesis, which was excellent. Here,

she is receiving the hood of her MA degree from the Dean of Graduate

Studies while the Chancellor waits to congratulate her a few seconds

later.