Sometimes you just have to try and try again (a picture project)

I am posting this article and these pictures just to show that if at first I don't succeed, I just have to try and try again. Sometimes it takes many, many pictures to get just ONE shot that I feel is worthy enough to share with my Gather friends.  

I also posted 2 different versions of the BEST picture to show that sometimes, if you just leave the picture alone... it looks better. A Gather member asked me if one of my pictures had been edited in any way, and I can see why the question was asked. It really DOES look like it was edited. In reality, when I tried to enhance the picture by using my "instant fix" feature on my Kodak EasyShare photo program, it thought it made the picture worse, so I left it alone and posted it exactly the way my camera had captured it. 

For those of you who are wondering, I am using the Kodak EasyShare Z650, 6.1 megapixel with 10x optical zoom. I just started using it in October this year, and so far... I like it.

Most of the time, my subject is attacking me, like this:

Sometimes when I get my subject to finally look in my direction, the picture isn't in focus or she's got some whacky look on her face, like this:

Then there's OTHER times when she forgets that she's even being photographed and maybe she thinks this is some other kind of photo shoot? Like this: 

Now I posted these 2 pictures (below) because a Gather member asked me to show Bitty's little Manx tail, so here it is:  

At times... I get a shot that is halfway decent, but not quite what I was shooting for, like this:  

And then FINALLY, I shoot only ONE worthy of posting on Gather, like this:

... and this one (below) is just to show you what it would have looked like if I had edited it, which just goes to show you that sometimes it's just better to leave a photo how the camera captured it: 

So, folks... thank you for allowing me to show you how difficult it is sometimes to get just ONE Gather worthy shot.  

~ Faith B.    December 04, 2006