I know what you're all thinking at this moment.

"After all this time, don't you know how to set your focal point to keep a face in focus? Don't you know how to do bokeh, and that it's supposed to be the background that is out of focus?"

Fair questions, though they assume that the face is in fact the principal subject of this photograph. He isn't. In fact, this is our most excellent tour guide Roberto who just happened to wander into the frame as I was doing some shots of the waterfront. And indeed, I did get those shots without anyone else in the frame. However, when I saw this one I thought there was a certain poetic licence to it.

We had left Naples for Capri relatively early that morning, though perhaps not as early as I would have liked. My preference would have been to arrive at Capri at dawn but first I don't think there was a boat service that would have gotten us there at that time, and second I realise that not everyone has adapted to pre-sunrise starts to their day the way I have. However we still had the greater part of the day there and managed to get up to the top of Monte Solaro and to see a substantial part of the island. Though as with almost every place we visited, it really isn't the same as staying there for a couple of days would have been. If only we had the time. And the money.

We didn't, so just before four in the afternoon it was time to go back to Naples. Accordingly we gathered on the dock and waited for Roberto to herd us onto the ferry. He therefore appears here in a semi-ghostlike fashion (the ghost of Capri visits past, perhaps) to draw to a close our time on this island. Statistically, it's unlikely that any of our group will make it back here again given the distance and the number of other destinations competing for our attention. Still, we had this one day.