They say that if you give typewriters to a roomful of monkeys they will eventually write Hamlet.
If you give a single monkey a mirror the results will be more immediate and more amusing.
If you give a man with time on his hands a digital camera, despite the supposed gulf in evolution and technology, you are firmly back in mirror/monkey territory.
I generally try to strike a pose that marks me out as a leader of men. This is easier with a camera than a phone as the phone invariably shows me looking sideways due to the placement of the lens. That makes me look shifty. Depending on the angle of head and camera I can also look like Mr Potato Head. Or a shifty Mr Potato Head.
I also find that I look older from one side than from the other, and serve as a terrible warning about cutting your own hair.
Having said that, if you buy cheap clippers you only need to cut it twice to be in profit. Once I qualify for senior citizen offers I may let a barber do it again as the costings will change.
I’m going to gloss over the matter of nasal hair (though I won’t be shooting from that angle again) but there can be problems with the degree of zoom and with holding the camera steady.
So that leaves this one. To be honest it looks less “leader of men” and more “pining for a decent haircut” but it’s the best I can do.
Best of a bad lot
Julia says next time I pick her up from work she’s going to leave a mirror outside and see what develops.