behind the camera

Making photos is mostly me seeing the world while I'm hidden behind the camera (unless I'm not turning it around to focus myself - but then, I don't see anything anymore.) There's nothing visible of me, merely some emotional influneces, personal preferences in choosing the objects and composing them. Only here, on this picture, it's a slightly bit different...

My best friend and I can only visit each other very rarely. We're close, though, through mails, letters and the telephone. Like in this picture: We're seperated through glass and neither of us could hear the other, but we communicated. And I shot that photo.
Originally I had intended to make one last photo of her before the train took me away again, then I discovered that I was visible as well and that had an astonishing effect. (usually it's quite enerving to have these mirror effects when photographing through glass!)
Now it's not only a picture of her saying goodbye to me, but of the two of us: seperated but together and united on the photo. And I as the photographer am as visible as the object I photograph...