A Good Eye for a Left Ear

A Good Eye for a Left Ear

My friend Jonathan, who lives across the road, develops and prints films. According to Jonathan most of us take awful pictures. Usually, we fail to aim at the subject so that the subject is not even in the picture. Sometimes the subject is too far away; sometimes too near. Some photos are spoilt because the sun is in front of us, when of course, it should be always behind us. Some of us take blank pictures because we take the lens cover off after we have taken our shots. We take most of our pictures when we are on holiday and like to catch our friends when they are fooling about. It's a pity we don't practice using our cameras before we go on holiday. A good book on photography would make us better at taking pictures, but most of us are too lazy to bother. I asked Jonathan what was the worst film he had ever seen. He did not have to think very hard about the question. At once he answered, "Twenty-four shots of the photographer's left ear!"