Tuesday. If you read my post about yesterday you’ll understand just how much of a disaster the day turned out to be… at least in terms of my intentions of first thing in the morning!
Well, today I’m more than making up for it. But having fiddled around for the past however many hours doing nothing really consequential I’m feeling a bit sort of… er… bored.

Hmm.

Quite a while ago a mate of mine suggested that some of my pics have a distinctly “Gothic” feel to them (I’m assuming he meant “Gothic” as in the recent “Goth” sub-culture, and not as in the architectual style… cos he knows I’m a bit sort of into that. The former, that is, not the latter. Although I quite like that style of architecture too. Just by way of clarification).

So that idea has been bubbling away in the back of my mind, but with no real intention on my part to do anything about it.
Then, only a few days ago, another mate had the audacity to suggest giving one of my pics the b&w treatment! I quickly disabused him of that notion of course cos I just don’t “get” black and white. This is the 21st century y’know. Cameras nowadays actually shoot in colour!

However, here am I mooching around indoors (deterred from going outside by the brilliant sunshine which, if I did venture forth, I just know would catapult me into another photo session, and subsequently entail hours of work) with that strangely uncomfortable and distinctly unfamiliar feeling that I think’s known as “boredom”, with these two suggestions still rattling around in my brain.

So I decide to have a play. Unfortunately, the pic I had in mind to play with was shot in the days before I shot most of everything in RAW, so I had to start out with the less-than-ideal JPEG format. But what the hell. After all, I’m only playing.
Now the result is not strictly “Goth”(ic), nor is it actually black and white. But it was fun doing it. So much fun in fact that it wouldn’t take a lot to persuade me to do some more.

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