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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Grace Holliday

‘They looked like two curtain-twitchers, though not very subtle ones’: Peter Crome’s best phone picture

Photograph of two dogs poking their heads between closed cotton blinds in the middle of a large wooden window on a brick house with a hedge beneath it
Neighbourhood Watch, 2026, shot on iPhone 14 Pro. Photograph: Peter Crome

Walking home after dropping his little girl at school, Peter Crome sensed he was being watched. A former professional ballet dancer now living in London, he had supplemented his income with photography work for 20 years. “But since having my daughter, my Nikon gear has sat idly by,” he says. “I got so used to lugging my heavy equipment around with me, it’s been quite refreshing to go somewhere just with a phone and still come back with wonderful pictures. My iPhone has also been a blessing for keeping in touch with family back home in Sydney,” Crome adds.

The cause of his disquiet that day was, to his happy surprise, these two dogs. “It was such a comical moment,” he says. “They looked like two curtain-twitchers, though not very subtle ones. I liked how they were perfectly framed with the different layers of window frames, and the brickwork and hedge provided some pleasing textures, but it was the disapproving expression on their faces that made the photo for me.”

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