Stubborn model | Cape Town Daily Photo

Models are almost always willing to engage with the camera, but for some reason this one refused to even look at me. For sure, models shouldn't always look at the camera, but Hildegardt seemed not even to hear me - she ignored me completely. I ended up leaving her to pose in the window on her own, alone and ignored by most who wondered by.

Speaking of mannequins, I recently came across a real person mannequin in a local shopping mall. I'd often thought it would be awesome to use a real person as a mannequin, but found that instead of "hey, that's awesome" I felt "ag, shame, that's horrible" - she looked terribly uncomfortable, unhappy, and unlikely to accept a repeat assignment.