This photograph is of Jeff Coleman, my longest standing friend. I have known him since I was two and half, or three years old, and he is essentially a third brother to me. In all the nearly 18 years we have known each other, this is the only photograph I have personally taken of him.

But, while at a cottage with him and his family, and while cleaning my equipment with a dust brush, I could not resist taking this shot, much in the same impulsive way as with Paige Miller in Arias.

Jeff has always been and always will be an inquisitive soul. He is never satiated by what he knows of the world, and constantly seeks new information to stimulate his mind. Give him light, he reads a book. However, we know not what he reads, what he's learning; it is a secret locked away behind the reflective glass cabinet doors, which echo the nostalgic scene outside, much like the smile on Jeff's face.

I used a 28mm Nikon lens, hence the angling of the lines yet the correct center of gravity on Jeff, and a sepia filter mounted on my Cokin filter system.