Photobombing

Joyce is usually with me when on visits, and takes a delight in photobombing my carefully framed photos. One of her most infamous successes was mingling in the clutter outside Westminster Abbey then putting up her arms with a huge grin. I never noticed at the time. When we returned home I found all the photos of Westminster Abbey were unusable for various reasons, lighting, vehicles, pedestrians, until I found one decent one. On closer inspection I then found Joyce had photobombed the image. How we laughed, especially as I had no photos I could the use in a book that was late for publication.

Since then Joyce has delighted in ruining as many photos as possible, and has encouraged family to do the same. Mostly these are quite obvious, staged and straightforward, although quite amusing; however in others she has been very cunning and creative, especially as I am concentrating on framing the photo so do not notice what she is up to.

Joyce does stray into some photos just by accident, of course, but on inspection of one of the photos on the website I just found she has done an excellent job. This is a very subtle one for her, not just a straying into shot.

We are offering a free copy of the harback edition for the first person that can identify the photo into which she has intruded. She has one of her arms out and has a big grin on her face. I only noticed this yesterday, and had either not noticed at the time or had forgotten. She may have also bombed other photos, of course.

The offending photo has finally been found (see Gosford House) and the free book has been despatched off to Diederick Hoekstra in The Netherlands.