When the great Bill Brandt learned about the poem that Ralph Mills had written about one of his photographs (the famous “Ear on the Beach”,1957)
![bill-brandt-31 © Bill Brandt](http://www.tomstappers.com/wordstoimages/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/bill-brandt-31.jpg)
© Bill Brandt
he wrote back: “This is my favourite photograph, and I thought I knew the picture, but your poem has taught me to look at it quite differently. I am delighted.” Everyone is entitled to his own interpretation. Happy 2010.