Mother and Daughter on a Journey

This happened in 1996. I was on a photography course in Banbury, and lived 3 miles outside the town. My daughter was living just outside Chesterfield in Yorkshire. I was set a project called 'The Journey' and had to produce a number of photographs depicting a journey of my choice. I decided to record my grocery shopping trip. This involved me taking a bus from the village into Banbury, then another bus to Tesco. This was a trip of approximately an hour and a half because I was stopping to take photographs at various places. I took photographs at the bus stop, on the bus, in the bus station, the bus driver and passengers, and people walking along the road. I got to Tesco and my last photograph was to be of the main door with all its great reflections. I looked through the viewfinder of my camera and my daughter was standing in front of the main door, waving at me. On the spur of the moment she had decided to visit friends and had driven down the M1 and then the M40 from Chesterfield. She still had quite a long way to go and feeling hungry she took a detour off the M40 to Banbury Retail Park to buy a sandwich from Tesco. Neither of us had any idea what the other was doing, and what a great finish for my project. I still have the photographs too.