Party-time

I started a roll of Fuji 400 colour film in my little Rollei 35TE a year ago, put it aside, and finally picked it up again a couple of weeks ago. I got the film developed today. This picture was one from just a couple of weeks ago, at a family garden-gathering.

The film was already twenty years expired when I put it in the camera. Thus the mottled texture. The colours were largely desaturated anyway, but this was converted to b&w through a virtual bluish filter to increase contrast. The flash of dark on the left edge is caused by my poor negative scissorring and then refraction from the neg's edge by the scanner's light. Duhhh. But, I think, a nice effect.

These women are respectively, my nephew's wife (does that make her a niece?), and her husband's aunt, my sternlaw. They were watching toddlers and kids skylarking.