Fag break..

This is one of my favourite photographs from the March installment of Twelve for '13. A moment within a moment! It's Christmas, at a swanky dinner - I actually remember it was at Buile Hill Park, in Salford - and this waitress has just finished setting her places. It's time for a fag! Imagine that! Never mind smoking indoors - that's the first moment captured - but lighting up right there and then 'at work' as it were! You can even see from her expression that she knows she's pushing it a bit! And the second moment? Well, she looks like she's just about to get a right royal rollicking from the lady zooming in from the right! Her supervisor, maybe? "Put that out, Gladys!.." you can imagine her shouting! "How very dare you!"

Ah, the eighties! And wow, the Olympus XA! What a camera that was! It did a really good job of capturing those instants, in low light .. on film. The shots I took with it make up my book Don't Miss This, and this image sums up the ethos of that book perfectly. In every picture there's something else happening, something you mustn't miss! I highly recommend you don't miss out on a copy!