(Joyce's semi-autobiographical novel, first published n 1917)

I guess I'm not alone, but I've always found Joyce difficult to read; it took me several weeks to finish 'Ulysses', and 'Finnegan's Wake' is one of the very few books I've never completed despite many attempts to do so. But 'Portrait' seemed like an easier read altogether

LOL, here I am as a fresh-faced youth - winter 1985 I think (25 years ago!!) before the ravages of children and having to work for a living put paid to my dashing good looks :o)). Obviously, this pic wasn't taken in the last few days, but I did scan it at the weekend; I discovered a box of slides and amongst other gems from the past was this :o)...so I suppose you could say that's it's fresh by that criteria!

Having scanned it, I desaturated it, cleaned it up a bit and added a bit of a Curve; I cropped to a square and resized

Thursday 28th's goodness-that-was-a-long-time-ago entry to the Challenge; click here for other monochromed Pbasers in January