To all those who celebrate it, we wish a Merry Christmas 2019.
I don\’t have any new music (yet), just a few photos:
This is an in-camera black & white photo (also simulating an orange filter) of Tuna from early Sunday morning. She doesn\’t eat much since then, so at the moment we\’re a bit concerned about her.
We\’ve also got a nice Christmas and season\’s greetings card from Shi – and I had nothing similar to send as a reply (I\’m really not that good in the graphic arts as she is), so I took a photo of an old Welsh song which I\’ve played with the orchestra this season. Also uploaded it to Wikiloops to greet all other musicians as well:
Happy holidays 2019 from a bass player…
This is more a New Year\’s than a Christmas song, and you can read more about it or hear it if you wish. I took this and the following photo using Mitchie\’s nice little 20mm f/1.7 Panasonic Lumix G lens.
The next photo is of Tuna again, close up and with Mitchie\’s lens wide open at f/1.7, so just one eye is sharp – and everything else more or less blurry. I also used a black & white conversion in software this time, and simulated an Ilford HP5+ film in RawTherapee. Midtoned as usual, which means the whites are white, the blacks are black, but those middle tones are more brownish than grey:
Two different light colours in this one, natural daylight from outside, and artificial light in our living room. And I liked that high contrast effect from the film simulation in this case.
Edit: here\’s another photo from today. In this one I simulated a colour film, Fuji Astia – and also cropped it into a 3:2 format like from the time we were still using film:
Hope that our cat is better soon.
As always, thanks for reading, and for viewing. Nice holidays to you all.