Aaaaarrrrrggghhhhh!

Major frustration!

Here I am, reading and learning, playing with the focus and the white balance, trying various flash / light combinations, carefully framing shots and looking for the best angles, spending lots and lots of time ... and then, along comes the hubs, with the camera in one hand, thumb on the clicker, not even bothering to look in the viewfinder or focus or check the settings or anything, and he gets this priceless shot of Pennie, smiling and happy in the grass.

I guess sometimes it's just a right-time right-place kind of accidental gift from the gods of photography.  But it's so unfair.

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Comments

[Christine]

Heh. He does indeed have the midas touch when it comes to all things electronic. It's a totally magical unexplainable thing. I might have thought it applied to the working of the camera, but I didn't realize it applied to actual picture taking. I keep hoping his magic will rub off on me, but so far, no luck.

[David]

OR...

It's like this: Wonder Woman complains of a problem with her computer. I trot on over (while it's still acting up), sit down, touch the keyboard and... problem goes away.

heh

Sometimes my magic touch amazes me.

Could hubs have a similar Midas Touch with cameras?

[Nancy Bond]

...and then, along comes the hubs, with the camera in one hand, thumb on the clicker, not even bothering to look in the viewfinder or focus or check the settings or anything, and he gets this priceless shot of Pennie, smiling and happy in the grass.

This is, indeed, the way of the photography gods. I remember a similar incident when I was helping my younger daughter, Erin, with a 4-H photography project. She, my best friend and I had gone to the beach, thinking she could find some inspiring things to photograph at sunset. She got some interesting pictures--some blurred, some too close--but her "winning" shot was one she took of my friend and I as we walked toward the water's edge. With her little instamatic camera, she somehow managed to capture us in a perfectly exposed silhouette against the setting sun and I still keep the photo in a frame on my desk. :) Neither my friend nor I even knew she took the photo.