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It's All in How You Look at It

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This weekend our granddaughter, just turned six, made a beautiful watercolor. After she finished the creation, she showed it to me with pride, explaining that it was a dinosaur. “You can see the head, and body, and legs and he’s swimming in the ocean.” I admired it, so she left it on my desk for me.
Some time later she came back in and picked it up. She looked at it and then gave it a quarter turn. And another. And another, exclaiming in frustration as she did so. "This is wrong! This is wrong!! This is wrong!!! This is wrong!!!! It's not right ANY way!!!!!"
I sensed a meltdown coming on, so I said quickly, "You said it was a dinosaur swimming, correct? Show me the dinosaur." She pointed to it immediately. Then I said, "I think we are looking down at him, right?" She nodded.
Then I explained, "Well, that's the problem . . . and it isn't really a problem at all. This is an aerial painting. Aerial pictures don't have any top or bottom. They don't have sides. They are right from any direction. Shall I show you some on the computer?"
So she climbed happily into my lap and we did an image search on aerial pictures. Her favorites were some that we found in a collection of photographs taken over Iceland.
Pretty sure my next photography splurge will be a drone.