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| Blur! London, ON January 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Answer: an unplanned 8-second handheld exposure in all its blurry glory. In other words, an abject failure of a shot.
But is it really?
I was fully prepared to delete this one, just another of the countless photos that understandably never see the light of day. For all the precision of modern cameras, where even in manual mode it’s hard to mess up an exposure, leave it to me to find new ways to screw up a pic.
But the longer I hovered over the image after I imported it into Lightroom, the more I decided I liked it.
It screamed abstract to me, a chaotic mess of light and texture that could only exist in that singular, imperfect few seconds. Or a reminder that not all plans are meant to work out, and it’s perfectly fine to end up far away from your original destination.
So let’s call it a happy accident, then. Or an unplanned failure. Or maybe something I should deliberately shoot for the next time I pick up a camera.
Maybe there’s something to this failure thing after all. Maybe the very word, failure, needs a new definition.
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