Random Stuff

As you might know, I teach a class on photography on cruise ships and to seniors. I always take a lot of pictures so I have stuff to talk about. I try to show my classes both good and bad pictures so they get an idea of what not to do. Here are some of my "duds." 

I thought a horse looking out of his trailer would be interesting...but somehow, it's not. It just looks like a horse head floating in space without anything to support it. Dud!

Morning shadows make me look very tall, but it's not very interesting. Another dud.

I took this for the bumper stickers. Bernie and one side and "masshole" on the other. I have no idea what a masshole is, but maybe that's a description of Bernie? The picture did not work, but the rays of light streaming from the back of the minivan are a complete surprise. They were not visible when I took the picture. Now, if I could take a good picture with those rays of sunshine, it would be a knockout. Yet another dud!

We went for a drive with the sole purpose of finding and taking pictures of horses. Finally, we saw 2 horses, but they were so far away, the picture is useless. We never did see any that were "up close and personal" and we never saw a horse that did not it's head down eating grass. Yep, a dud. 

For a picture to be good, it's needs to be framed well, have a good subject matter, and it needs to make sense. These pictures just don't cut it. I'm sad to report, I have several more, but I'll stop for now.