Photograph copyright: DAVID McMAHON
One of the prizes at this fairground stall was a big blue teddy bear – and I tried very hard to include it in this frame. Why? Because I could have used the headline ``Grin And Bear It’’. But the bear was too far out of the frame – and since I never ``set up’’ shots, I didn’t ask the stall holder to move the bear closer in. The light wasn’t great, so I just went for the three clowns instead. Anyone who has played the clown game in Australia knows how it goes – you have to drop a series of table tennis balls into a clown’s mouth (while the head rotates through 150 degrees) to try and reach a series of numbered slots in order to win corresponding prizes. No, I’ve never been good at numbers.