best shot monday

an ongoing weekly post of my favourite photo taken the previous week...

taken by a stranger at the beach

this one has to come with a story. my brother and i took our cousin to the beach for a walk and an ice cream cone on a hot, hot day this week. we figured we should get a photo of the group of us so we asked a woman if she would take our picture. we posed. i lifted up my arm to take off my sunglasses and the woman said, "i can see your arm in it." i figured she snapped a shot while i was doing that but then she kept looking into the camera so i thought she was just going to take another picture. she does so and hands me the camera saying, "how does that look?" as i look at the picture that matt has completely been cut out of, she says to matt, "oh! are you supposed to be in this picture?" what?! well, he has his arm around the stroller and is leaning in towards us. turns out, it was matt's arm she could see in the picture and was trying to encourage him to get out of the shot. ben almost didn't make it in either, matt, so don't feel bad. this photo makes me laugh aloud.