Here's an aside... My favourite image – inevitably taken when I did not have a camera to hand – was in another coffee shop, this time a French themed one in a side-street in the fashion district near Oxford Circus. There was an elderly Tibetan-looking buddhist monk, dressed in crimson robes (there were no crowds so he was not the Dalai Lama) he was drinking hot chocolate from one of those big French-style bowls you usually only see in Continental Europe – and in front of him was an Apple Mac laptop (the cafe had free wi-fi access). Perhaps he was surfing the web, looking for enlightenment in cyberspace. On the internet nobody knows you are a dog (or even a god).
Anyway, back to this week in Soho. It was only after I'd taken the picture that I spotted the guy on the right, glugging wine straight from the bottle – no glass, perhaps he'd not been having a very good Monday morning. I say I spotted the guy – in fact he'd spotted me first and it was his wild gesticulating (not caught on camera) that attracted my attention. As he looked angry (and possibly drunk) I decided not to push my luck by taking any more pix and, in the words of the old-style News of the World reporters, I made my excuses and left.
(London, Soho, 12:42pm, June 16, 2008, f 4.0 - 1/400 - ISO 400)
