When the muse takes her, Eleanor, now 8, likes nothing more than exploring and capturing the world around her through a cameraphone.

Last weekend was one of those lovely occasions, an hour together in the sun, with no guidance, no restrictions, just free to photograph whatever struck her.

Mostly she gravitates towards flowers, although not exclusively., especially when insects present themselves…

Whereas I would deliberately try and avoid the tangible evidence of human beings in my own photos, Eleanor seemingly relishes those juxtapositions.

And I would of course always seek pristine perfection, but her photos demonstrate so clearly there is beauty in senescence! That certainly makes me look anew!

Then there is the positioning of the subject. OK this might be random, but seeing the sequences of her pictures where she starts with it centred and then increasingly shifts the focus to one side or another makes me think her artistic appreciation is somehow innate. The number of images where the subject bleeds off the edge without compromising the beauty of the whole has to be deliberate?

Likewise throwing focus: indeed she patiently explained to me how she gets the shots where focused background detail is highlighted by a blurry foreground…

…as well as getting so close into the subject, it is driven to abstraction (my words!).

And finally, by being younger, smaller and more supple she manipulates perspectives in ways I could now only dream of!

The apogee of this (so far) for me is in the picture of a small tree from ground level, looking like a foliar firework exploding into the heavens.

I know I am biased but I am a very #ProudPapa!