I’m a hopeless judge of my own work

Today's P&J was a pleasant surprise.

I did some photos at an outdoors activity centre yesterday and although I got a few pictures that I thought were "sort of okay", I knew I'd done a job that was average at best. Not for lack of effort, but sometimes you just don't get the eye-catching pictures that you wanted.

Still it's the picture editor whose opinion counts, not mine, and two photos ran in the paper so I guess I scraped through…