Really Bad Photography

1. The 'No Swimming' sign


2. The Breaker Light - that white tower in the water


3. Round Island - that green blob in the background

Here I am happily leaning over the railing for this shot.

Oops! I have flipped over the railing, but I continue to take really bad pictures on the way down.

Not only did I survive the fall, but I manage to take a picture (in focus no less) of the hill I fell down.

This is a nice shot with the green railing of the boat featured prominently. Perhaps I was into taking pictures of piles of lumber or groups of bicycles. If it was the resort in the background I had no idea what the 'zoom' function might be used for.

Was I spying on the nice couple wearing their sweaters over their shoulders? Maybe I meant to capture the busy downtown street.

• Give a kid your camera without any instructions


• Make sure they have never used a camera before


• Encourage them to just 'point and shoot'


• Don't tell them not to take pictures from moving vehicles (or boats) with slow speed film


• Tell them, "sure everyone loves foggy pictures"


• When they do use the zoom, make sure they cut in way too close


• Nah, you don't need a tripod. Are you trying to avoid blurry pictures, or what?


• Wash, rinse, repeat