This is a photo from last week when I went on the bus to Nottingham with my whippet for a photowalk around the city centre.
I saw a really cool lady in a Jacket Potato mobile food stall, leaning on her counter watching the world go by. I thought she would make a great stranger so asked her for a photo. When I told her I would be posting the photo online she said she would rather not pose for me, but did say ask the lady on the flower stall, she would say “Yes”
So I went to the flower stall about 50 metres away and introduced myself and asked if I could take her photo. Meet Annette who said yes, but before I could take any photos she was making a big fuss over Elsie.
Annette told me she loved sighthounds (that’s Greyhounds, Lurchers, Whippets, Italian Greyhounds etc.) and stroked Elsie. Annette told me she thought Elsie was beautiful. I told her I agreed with her.
I asked Annette if she had a dog.
“Not while working on the stall” she said
“How long have you been working the stall?”
“45 years, that’s a long time”
“Wow, that’s amazing, how old where you when you started”
“Well I’m 66 now !!!”
“So am I”
“It was a good vintage”
“It must have been” I replied !
I shot some photos of Annette with the stall included.
As I was chatting and taking the photos some customers approached her to buy some flowers.
I let Annette serve the customers and then continued the shoot.
“Can you hold a bouquet of flowers for me”?
Annette picked up a bouquet and posed for me.
That was it photoshoot over. I thanked Annette for her time, we bumped fists and she gave Elsie a final stroke.
I went over to the lady at the Jacket potato stall and thanked her for the “heads up”.
