Vince and me

Vince had a party for his 90th birthday and it was great fun. When he

passed his 91st, there was less ado. He hasn't reached 92 yet.



A few nights ago my wife and I were walking back from supper and saw

Vince, who is my wife's uncle, and others of his family going into

another downtown restaurant, so we followed them in and joined the

festivities for a while. They were celebrating Vince's grandson's

girlfriend's graduation.



While there I took a pair of selfies with Vince. I laid the Olympus XA

on the table in front of us and used the self-timer. At the time I

thought it worked, and I looked forward to the picture. But it didn't

work, at least not the way I wanted it to work. I may have pushed the

aperture lever too far, all the way to Flash, and the flash was not

attached. Anyway, when I got the film developed there was just a

blank space where the two pictures should have been.



In scanning it, though, I could see something there. So I did a

red-filter b&w conversion and got this. Quite nice, actually.