After Diana And Kai Had Left This Morning,

I decided to play with a few more photographs that I had taken over the years,

all of the ones I chose were colour photographs that I wanted to change to black & white, the first the Walkie-Talkie building, I started with a infrared photograph and played with it,

and ended up with this, 

a grave from Brompton Cemetery, 

again given the treatment,

then across the world to Hong Kong, 

looking down onto some high rise housing, 

next a barge going under a bridge in Vietnam,

turned into a black & white, 

and lastly a sailor sails out of the harbour at the Ocean Marina in Jomtien, Thailand,

great fun for myself, the day just flew past! it was past my meal time, for tonight a curry with rice, but I was so hungry I just tucked in and then remembered I had not taken any photographs!, later Kai arrived in time for a film that I had seen before,

 Waterloo, the 1970 release, it had everything, 20,000 soldiers, a full brigade of Soviet cavalry, and vast numbers of engineers and laborers to prepare locations and facilities for 48 days of shooting in the Ukraine, to recreate the battlefield, the Soviets bulldozed 2 hills, deepened a valley, laid miles of roads, transplanted 5,000 trees, sowed fields of rye, barley, and wildflowers, and reconstructed 4 historic buildings. The production included Italian and Russian technicians, English and French advisors, Yugoslav stuntmen, and actors from America, Canada, England, Ireland, Italy, France, and Russia and a International cast, which includes Rod Steiger, Christopher Plummer, Virginia McKenna, Jack Hawkins, Dan O'Herlihy and Orson Welles, what a great film, after which Kai was off to bed, shortly after Diana arrived home, so feet up for a coffee and a spiced rum before a Ain't Half Hot Mum, and we were then both off to bed.