Take the Picture Anyway.

In the past I have taken my horse out during their last few weeks to let them graze the better patches of grass. I stood and watched them, remembering our time together. I took photos, lots of photos and the odd short video of them grazing.

I decided to take a photo each day I took Brat out to graze this year. It's a record of the year, and also a challenge to not take the same photo over and over. Two weeks after I started I'm already feeling like I'm just taking the same photos. Yet I keep taking pictures.

Several years ago a friend and I did a photo day for our horses. She wanted a nice portrait shot to hang on her wall, and I was always up for taking photos of my two. The horses were good - not entirely cooperative all the time, but I kept taking pictures. Digital cameras are a wonderful invention! In the end the best photos of the day, the ones we had enlarged and printed on canvas, were not at all what we had in mind when we started. They were moments where the horses weren't posing the way we wanted, they were doing something else and I had continued to take pictures.

I remember that day's lesson every now and then. On the day this photo was taken I thought I had missed the light, took a few photos hoping one would be okay. Then the sun set, the last light of day came through under the clouds, and I took this picture.

Take the photos. Keep shooting even if you don't think it will turn out. You might just get something special.