as promised here are my favourite photos of mel from our portrait challenge. in the photo group i am part of we have occasional challenges. a recent one was to be paired up with someone at random and take portraits of each other to then show the group. i took photos of mel which was great fun and she kindly said i could post them in flickr. there's a set of five here. it's actually quite a scary challenge both to be photographed and to photograph someone – there's a vulnerability all round. it's probably why i usually take other types of photographs normally. but we both ended up enjoying it and it's given me confidence to think i can and like photographing people. me by mel are here if you missed them