Remember when we went over to your Uncle’s after they got back from their big trip to Europe? Must have been forty years ago. A slide show with that little projector balanced on too tall a stack of books. The blurry images on the wall. Your Uncle’s apologetic tone.

He said: “This is where we had breakfast in Barcelona. You’d never guess that La Sagrada Família is just around the corner! Damn film was loaded wrong in the camera. This is the only image we got that whole day. but if you look closely you can see a tiny tip of one of the spires just peering over the top of that shop front.”

He said: “We saw this marvelous mime performing for the tourists on the steps of the British Library. It was all over by the time I got the camera going.”

He said: “I couldn’t leave London without a picture of the Tower. The fenestration of the building tells quite a story, wouldn’t you say? Smallest windows at the top, sorry they’re just out of the picture, along with the notched battlements.”

Last night, a total lunar eclipse was scheduled to take place in Eastern Australia starting precisely at the moment the moon peeked over the eastern horizon and finishing about an hour later. I was all set to capture the dark red shadow of the earth on the moon with my remarkable little “point and click”. You’ll have to imagine it, though, in the picture above. The moon rose above the eastern cloud bank just minutes after the eclipse was over.