perfect save for the absence of a distant scream

Although fluorescent lighting mostly looks nasty there are a few instances where the distinct greeny-yellow tinge it provides provides a definite character and flavour to that which it illuminates. There are a few entrances to flats a couple of streets away from me with pools of greeny-yellow on the stairs leading to their doors, a few nearby closes and alleys with sinister greeninesses to sections of them, the toilets of the local cinéma and the corridor alongside the hall in which yesterday's wedding was held which lent the food served for the late-evening buffet a disturbing feel.

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Very little done on Sunday. Back too late last night to have done anything more than transfer pictures from card to compute so spent a pleasant breakfast poking through them and grudgingly accepting that occasionally it is possible to go beyond ISO800 and return with acceptable results though cropping too tightly becomes unwise. Some things were just unsalvageable where the only light was from fluorescent tubes which someone had cunningly covered with green or pink filters leaving little for the channel-mixer to work with if a corpselike tinge was to be avoided by converting to B&W. It definitely makes a difference pushing the ISO a little bit further to be able to stay just below the maximum aperture to save a little bit of DOF and coma. When that was done I read some Viz drank more coffee (shitey instant stuff; I'll have to start bringing some better stuff through with me or perhaps concealing it somewhere in the house (as I do a tube of normal toothpaste rather than the abrasive crap nicky's parents use)), ate a muffin then packed and trundled back without incident and had a nice chili/carrot/onion/pepper cheese-free pizza on a Spelt-based-base and scored a free out-of-date spicy mexican pastything from the shop which I really should have eaten instead of the pizza seeing as it was out-of-date. I expect it'll be fine for tomorrow evening's tea.