Celia Lim ( http://www.pbase.com/cecilialim ) catches me sitting next to my friend and fellow pbase photographer Tim May in the sanctuary of Malacca’s ancient Cheng Hoong Tang Temple. We are waiting for Celia to finish shooting her own images, and use the time to check our own progress, editing our work on the fly. Celia sees me as mirror image of Tim – we are wearing the same brand of shooting vest (Domke) and even the same brand of shirt (Ex-Officio), hold our cameras before us in the same way, tilt our eyes towards our LCD screens together, thereby highlighting the fact that we both have less on top than we used to have. Celia links us to the context of the temple by including a pair of windows above us, windows that rhythmically repeat our side-by-side positions. Celia says in her own caption for this image that “over the years of shooting together, Phil and Tim have become quite in synch with each other. They can even anticipate how the other will likely see or shoot an image.” She is correct – I often find myself shooting a “Timesque” image, and Tim will often repay the compliment. Tim and I have shot and edited side by side all over the world. Here, in Malacca’s Cheng Hoong Tang Temple, we seem joined at the hip.