Sometimes I forget that maybe I should snap a picture now and then that isn’t of an inanimate object or static scene. And although my cheap Nokia camera phone takes terrible photos it’s better than nothing, and I always have it on my person, so I think I shall try to use it more often.

Here’s Sandy and I listing badly atop Mount Eden on a freezing day in the middle of Auckland. The strange painterly effect in the background is due to the image compression used by the phone, not any post-processing on my part. I picked this shot because my head doesn’t look five times bigger than hers, due to a trick where I am actually standing three feet behind (a technique known as forced perspective ).