Inanimate objects do not have free will. Only humans and animals have it. I don’t quite agree. A few months ago in a shoot in my piano room my Fuji X-E3 refused to take pictures. It would not click. I then read a notice that said, “Need to pair with your phone.” To me that proves that these inanimate objects (many are my cameras) go their own way because they can.
Where does the weird free-will come from? The major reason is that the people that design these digital cameras, computers, scanners, etc never have to use them.
When I have problems opening bottles or packages I often think, “The chap that designed this should be subjected to opening them for a whole day.”
In my past life as a magazine photographer I was aware of Patterson’s Law. Patterson said that Murphy was an optimist. This meant that for all my assignments I took two of everything.
This past few weeks I had three film cameras with film. One of them was loaded with colour negative film. When I had the rolls processed by The Lab one of the rolls of Kodak Plus-X which was exposed to X-ray when I went to Mexico City on this past December had a strip of odd pictures. One of them is the one you see here. I have no idea what it is or when I shot it.
But I like it. Perhaps Patterson and Murphy combined forces to make me smile.