self-portrait in w1... with my friend chris

my friend chris moved to canada 4 or 5 years ago.

he's the one i blame for canada being number 3 on my list of blog

followers. i don't know anybody else in canada apart from chris...

perhaps he tells everybody he meets about my ramblings ?

anyway, he's back in england for a week and on friday we arranged to

meet for a quality coffee and a catch up.

we met in the nordic bakery ( of course ) and while chris took a call...

... i took a sneaky photo of him with my x100

before we said our goodbyes i thought it would be an idea to shoot a self-portrait

of the two of us, so i set my gf1 on the back shelf of my jam jar and put it on a 12 second timer...

grrr !

just as the camera took the shot, a load of people walked by.

i didn't check the shot as we were in a rush. i just assumed the bloke had blocked us

so i took another shot... but as it happened the people walking by work quite

well don't they ?

anyway, here's the other shot i took with the gf1 on self-timer.

nobody walked past us so i knew it would be ok and i didn't bother checking

it until i got home... what a shame... i wish i had checked it...

look at the girl on the left, sitting in pret... she'd spotted what we were up to and

joined in with the posing ! what a girl !

i wish i'd checked it, as i would have gone in and showed it to her...

i really think it makes the shot don't you ?

good to see you again chris. top man.

( and whoever you are... top girl )