This, of course, is not the bridge in the Japanese Garden in Holland Park in London. It is the queue lining up to cross the bridge. In fact it is about one half of the queue that stretches off to the right of the frame.

The bridge leads nowhere. It is just an ornamental bridge in the garden.

My friend said he was not going to line up to cross the bridge, as he gently mocked the people for behaving like sheep. lining up to cross the little bridge.

That suited me: I didn’t want to line up, nor to cross the bridge, because I had no interest in doing so, but I did want to photograph the people.

The fact is that it is a bridge I have already crossed.

I went across that bridge when it was free of visitors, so I know what it is like to stand on the bridge. It’s nice if you are walking that way, and yes, it is nice, but it is not that nice.

It is not nice enough to stand in a queue for the opportunity. I guess the people wanted to take photos of themselves standing on the bridge.

If not that, then there is not much to do other than walk across.

I searched in Instagram and sure enough there are many photos of the bridge – photos of couples, of a man on one knee proposing, etc.

This is in Leicester Square, the same day as the Trafalgar Square photos, and in my mind now I am picturing why I can shoot comfortably with the Fuji X100 range of cameras in a way that I can’t with other cameras.

Now I could have got closer like in the crop, but I like the original framing with the man looking on, and the man at the back looking at other drawings.

Part of being comfortable with the camera is that it has its own case and strap, so I don’t have to have a bag with me. That makes me feel more relaxed because I am not balancing the bag on my shoulder.

Second is that the lens hardly sticks out at all, as you can see in this photo looking down on the top plate.

And from the front, I think the camera doesn’t look like a modern digital camera that means business.