Marc had just received the verdict on his PhD oral defence -- he'd

passed. Here, he was with his wife and daughter as we were all getting

ready to leave the defence room. He still had his academic gown on.

His daughter smiled a moment later, but I like this picture better.



Under fluorescent lights, the colours were a little more garish than

I'd like, so I converted it to b&w. In so doing, I punched up the the

local contrast all around (except their faces), to give it a kind of

cartoony feel. There is little in real life that is as cartoony as

getting advanced academic degrees.