Granada-based artist Natasha Phillips recalls a late-summer’s day spent wandering Granada with photographer Paul Ainger and an orange shopping trolley. It’s the beginning of October and I’m striding along the River Genil in Granada pushing a bright orange shopping trolley full of my art prints in front of me. Turning for a second to look downriver, Granada glows beautifully in the soft morning light. You can tell it’s going to be one of those gloriously warm autumn days, our last taste of summer before the cold arrives without warning and takes over for a few months. Granada is a city of sharp contrasts: summer and winter, hot and cold, sun and shade; there’s not much in between.     Nearing the end of the promenade, I raise a hand to shield my eyes from the sun and spot a curly-haired man sporting a camera and a backpack happily waving as he bounces along energetically towards me. Meet Paul: the man behind the lens of Paul Ainger Photography. He smiles widely and apologises profusely for arriving late despite having left early, all thanks to a bus stop mix-up resulting in him being treated to an unplanned tour of Granada and its outskirts and then having to walk all the way back into town to meet me. We decide to head to the riverside restaurant Las Titas for a hit of caffeine while we plan the day’s shoot and Paul recovers from his early morning adventure.     Over the last few years I’ve built up a collection of illustrations of the city and the idea is for Paul to photograph me and my prints of Granada in the places that inspired them. With a total of 16 designs to shoot all over town it’s no small feat! Just as well Paul has already warmed up.     We decide to start at the other end of town and work our way back towards the centre, then head up to the Alhambra and the Paseo de los Tristes area and finally the Albaicín and Sacromonte to catch the sunset. We have a lot of ground to cover so I’m thankful that Paul is no stranger to racking up miles on the pedometer. A keen walker, he and his friend Tim West created 45 Degrees West through which they raise money for charity by completing self-set walking challenges. In 2014 they hiked from John O’Groats to Land’s End in order to raise money to fund a St Giles’ nurse for a year.       But Paul and Tim aren’t stopping there! They’ve set themselves a new challenge for April 2019: to raise £7,000 for the stroke ward of Burton-upon-Trent hospital by walking through 7 national parks in England in 7 days, this time accompanied by their friend Dave for whom it’s a very dear cause. You can follow their footsteps on Facebook and Twitter and donate here. Having finished our refreshments and planned our route, we set out with our trusty trolley companion, Trudy, for our first port of call: Triunfo park.     Paul stumbled upon his love of photography at the tender age of ten or so while on a family holiday in Wales. Given permission to use his dad’s camera to take a photo of the sunset he headed off up the hill, lay down in the grass and looked through the viewfinder at the painted sky before him. Just like that, he stepped through the wardrobe and out into Narnia. Little Paul discovered that by squinting through a tiny window and pressing a button, he could stop time with just one click. A moment that would have been...