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38.4 - Example #2

A Reward of Knowing That

You have Your Mother's Eye

As will be described, below, photographers should have a way to look at their photographs.

A student, Ruth, was going through an old family album. Her late mother had taken the pictures.

Ruth had some of her own pictures sitting on a picture rail. She looked from her mother's pictures to her own, and noticed a similarity.

Ruth realized she had inherited her mother's eye.