I'm Losing My Touch

 I am losing my touch!  Today Kathy and went up to the St. Lukes Church Fair, just to wander around.  I brought my camera, of course.  As we went into the yard by the church, there were two young girls sitting in the grass enjoying their ice cream cups.  I said "Those look delicious" when one looked up, and one said "Thank you."  So here I was looking at this wonderful scene with the two girls, and I could not bring myself to bring my camera up to my eye and take a photograph!  You know why?  I was worried that someone would see me taking a photograph of two young girls and accuse me of creepy behavior.  Isn't that sad?  It killed me not to take that slice of life of two young girls enjoying their ice cream on a sunny afternoon.  But I think I made the right decision.  

So then to my second photograph, above.  I decided to do some kind of overall photograph of the tents and people in the park.  But it was dull without people in the foreground of the photograph.  So I stood there and waited until people walked into the shot.  This is the third couple to walk in that I photographed.  I did a few photographs and figured I had my shot.  But when I was doing the editing at home, I realized I missed THE shot.  I thought the subject was the fair with some people in it.  Wrong!  The real subject of interest was this couple!   I love how this couple is dressed - the woman has such beautiful hair so nicely arranged, and she has the wonderful wrap over her shoulders.  They are the most interesting thing in the photograph.  And I didn't realize that until I was editing the photographs much later.  Yup, loosing my touch...