Portrait of a child drawing. I have often said on this blog that I do not take portraits and this of course is the exception to the rule. On a recent family get-together, one of our grandchildren became totally absorbed by the drawing and crayoning book that she had been given. The warm afternoon sun streamed through the window and caught her as she crayoned away. On seeing the photographic potential I quietly got my camera and turned the flash setting to 'off'. I did that for two reasons: Firstly, the flash would have immediately distracted her and I would only have had one chance at the shot. Secondly though, part of the attractiveness of this scene was the back lighting of the sun and the flash would have ruined that by losing the shadows, flattening the image and making her face pale. She sat about seven or eight feet from me and I set the lens to a moderate telephoto setting, and without any fuss or drawing attention to myself, I started clicking away. If someone stood in the way, I just kept quiet and hoped for the best. I took about a dozen photos in all, zooming in and out, some landscape and some portrait. This is one of three or four that I was very pleased with.
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