I was about to pack it in when I noticed an attractive woman being photographed by her female friend using a cell phone. Something about her made me stop in my tracks, gather some pluckiness and ask permission to make a few frames of her.
Destiny -who turned out to be delightful- readily obliged by posing with her white sunglasses and the arch as her backdrop. She and her friend Bridget had to rush somewhere else, so I had to be quick...and hence the "à la sauvette" title of this post. The expression was made famous in a photography context by Henri Cartier-Bresson.
And in monochrome:
