Caught in the act.

On my 5 minute walk from my painting class opposite the Pompidou centre to the metro at Hôtel de Ville , I pass this shop window. It is full of beautiful blue glass syphons and papery white ceramic vegetables. They are irresistible. I took lots of photos, flash and non-flash from different angles .


They required very close inspection to appreciate fully the delicacy of the execution of leaf and root so I got closer and closer to the window , still snapping away ....

...until the net curtain behind the glass shelves was gently pulled aside by the gentleman I had been blinding as he ate his lunch. He was gracious enough to smile at the woman, who had been peering into his face and food at a distance of 30 cms.