Film Noir

Better biggified.

A good blander at lunch time on a secret mission and I ended up at one of my favourite photographic haunts, outside Parliament House, which is now the High Court (and until recently was the highest criminal court in Scotland) too.

This building housed the Scottish Parliament until 1707 when it was dissolved and has seen its fair share of history. Its got a dramatic hall inside and is still really interesting to visit and watch the advocates (counsel) pace up and down the hall with their clients discussing the case and the corridors full of battered wooden boxes with old metal hasps overflowing with papers tied in pink legal ribbon. Something very old fashioned about it - in a good way mostly!

What better place for a mysterious cigarette smoking man in the shadows of the arches.

Several rejects from the same spot today. Here's a couple:

> Reject 1: Arches

> Reject 2: Arches & film filter

> Reject 3: ... and a snowy castle

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LOTD: So many good shots to choose from today! I think my favourite though is Omg It's Natalie's "Tears of a Clown" blip - dark and interesting. Full of emotion and a fantastic portrait.