A lone horse, protected by a fly mask, grazes in her owner's pasture.

I haven’t been so completely disappointed by an image for a long time. I was photographing this mare when she turned and looked at me. You couldn’t see her face through the fly mask, but the sun glinted off her her eye and flashed right through the screening. I shot several frames and they looked great on my camera’s little screen.

When I went to process them from RAW, I found a problem. The sharpness of the image just wasn’t there. I usually prefer to only use images that are really clear, but I couldn’t give up on this one.

Besides, it isn’t like anyone is looking at this site anyway.

My daughter, being a bit goofy, late in the evening on her 7th birthday.

For some reason, I like frustrating myself by taking spontaneous portrait shots in low light. Something about the light appeals to me. I have no idea if anyone has ever coined the phrase before, but I like to call my pictures in these situations “Failing Light Photography”. It’s sort of my ‘thing’. It frequently turns into simply “Failed Photography” when the subject moves or I jiggle the camera.