Maud Toussaint is an abstract painter. I am a photographer. And so it’s been my job to take pictures of her work (and of her with her work) for cataloging, website gallery… and for keeping me out of trouble doing normal stuff with my camera.
Which is what I was doing at a Brussels boutique one Sunday morning a few years back: there was one of her paintings we’d somehow overlooked so she hopped me down to where it was on sale to take its picture.

So I’m crouched down in full ‘Blow Up’ mode doing my thing with the painting on the floor leaning against the wall… when the boutique owner’s dog Clyde decided to be a nuisance and slip into my viewfinder.
OK, if it had been a black & white Jack Russell I’d have shoo’d it away with my foot and re-framed. But it struck me in a nanosec that Clyde was color co-ordinated 

 with Maud’s painting and the shutter just clicked in a natural and uncontrolled reflex…

And so this is what I got:
The pooch stole the show and has thus become art at the same time.
And I got a cool picture.
And Maud can now market her work as not only compatible with home furnishings, but with home pets.
Win/win/win !!!