Self portrait with East German / Soviet respirator

As this is an unused respirator I was loath to remove the base plug to allow air through the filter. Hence I could only stand still wearing the mash for about seventy-five seconds before having to remove it and breathe. Needed to take a lot of pix because o difficulty of lining up hand held mobile and keeping it still enough.

Had great fear of being unable to remove mask in time, falling unconscious to floor and being discovered several days later and being mistaken for a Tory MP