The other day I noticed my dog Winky laying on the couch being particularly cute. There was something about the way the light emitted from the nearby lamp was cast upon him and how he rested his head between his front paws. Simply put, it was a really good photo op. I grabbed my camera and composed the shot but moments before I pressed down the shutter release obnoxious and needy Rocky, 13 years young, stepped in front of the camera and started to bark in my face. I quickly zoomed out and this is the resulting picture:
Had Rocky not been a complete pest, this photo probably would have been trashed. I used too slow a shutter speed, so Winky would have been really blurry and I can tell that it would have been overexposed because his paw dangling from the couch is very light. Rocky was a brat, though, and this photo pleasantly surprised me. Sure, it’s blurry but there’s also some strange and fierce movement here. It looks like he is about to morph into a werewolf or go Cujo on someone. I don’t know…there’s just something about it that I like. Unexpected photos truly are the best photos.
