Homework for my current photography course (monochrome) – last class

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Format should be one by three, or something like that. I can’t deal with numbers (a brain defect – a bit like being dyslexic but with numbers, I think is the best way to describe it) – numbers mean nothing to me and I hate to even look at them.

I have gotten through a fourty-year working life doing office jobs without it being too much of a handicap, except there were jobs I could not apply for. Now I am retired, and I prefer to ignore this disability, and most things to do with numbers, not let any of all that frustrate me any more, and refuse to let it ruin my day :-).

By the way, when I went to school in the 1950s and -60s, being completely useless at subjects such as arithmetic and maths (including a complete inability to memorise one’s own house number, let alone phone number) was quickly dismissed as stupidity – by teachers as well as parents. I was quite good at languages, grammar and spelling, but that did not count. It is only in very recent years that I have begun thinking that perhaps I am not quite as stupid as everybody thought back then that I was.

But I was not alone. Back then, they had not quite discovered dyslexia as a thing, so those with that learning disability were also considered dimwitted, perhaps much more so than I was.

Where was I – yes, so I just crop more intuitively and pretend that I am looking for formats suitable as Facebook cover photos :-).

However, this time I shall have no trouble weeding photos out. On the contrary, I doubt I will be able to submit more than six or seven.

I am not able to achieve the “panoramic” look, but I doubt that has anything to do with my inability to understand numbers.