"My object, presumably, was to preserve a record of the infant Thea, but being so inexperienced, I got the composition all wrong, so what you really have is a picture of Beatrix's kitchen, with Thea as merely one small object contained within it.  As a result, it is a much more interesting photograph than it might have been.  Babies are all much of a muchness, as far as I can see, but no two kitchens are the same, are they?"

The rain before it falls / Jonathan Coe