Sometimes you have to stop and wonder, at the small perfections that are all around us. I was walking in High Park in late October with my daughter and my son-in-law, who were visiting from South Africa, and Gareth was quite entranced with the water-birds, and spent some time leaning over the water with his camera, trying all sorts of angles, hoping to get a shot.

I had a longer lens, on a DSLR, and this is the photo I sent him – just in case his own pics didn’t come out so well.

Isn’t he handsome? The duck, I mean.