
Yes, I know that the portrait module was Tuesday, but how could I resist Winnie and Pepper – a 2-year-old St Bernard and his aunt – when I spotted them in the courtyard at Nostell?

But before I could get the shot I was after the two of them came to life, checking out the camera so closely that I might as well have switched to macro.

Luckily they soon settled down and I got my shot.