We decided during the week that this is such an historic week for us - we're now joined at the mortgage - so we'd celebrate by doing portraits of one another today. Here is me as David sees me, and here is David as I see him.

I know the vogue is for the potd crowd to do black and white portraits but I don't much care for fashion! The thing that first attracted me to David was the steel blue eyes - Black and White wouldn't do them justice.

So, here is David - artist, photographer, musician, friend, lover and companion. He is full of telling people at the moment that he's cultivating the David Cassidy look. I don't think I'd be at all unhappy for him to look too much like David Cassidy.....DC's been in my dream cupboard since I was twelve. But really, David M is it - he's the man....even if David Cassidy knocked on my door now and said 'hey, Linda - let's run away together' I'd have to say 'nah - sorry, I love another!'.

BTW - this is the first time I've ever taken a portrait as such - all of my people pics are basically just snapshots - I had to have 60 attempts before getting one I really liked but eventually I got a pic of 'him' rather than just a pic of a man! That's the difficulty in portraits I now realise, it's more than capturing the animate object that light bounces off - to make it really work you need to get some of the personality of the subject. I hope I've managed that. That's the beauty of digital I suppose, I could just keep going until I'd got a photo I liked - I'd have given up much earlier with film (and not even been sure of having a pic 'in the bag').

Getting the lighting how I wanted it and the composition were really difficult. In the end he helped me to set it all up.....I think he was getting bored looking at me scratching my head!