HANDS ACROSS THE SEA

I can’t imagine that anybody will ever take a better photograph of a drink in front of an airplane window than this one by William Eggleston.

 

But that doesn’t mean you can’t try. Here’s one I took a few years years ago on a plane to Tokyo.  I mean it’s not terrible, though the absence of the hand and the ice and the clouds and the stirrer make it a bit nothing.

And then a couple of weeks ago I was sitting beside my companion Caroline Gannon when she took this picture on a flight to Dublin.

I very much like the clouds and the lemon slices and the bubbles in the tonic, and I can take a very, very tiny piece of credit.  The hand model is me!  Of course it does make me wish I had more elegant hands ....