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Sometimes you can't get the shot

Sometimes you can't get the shot

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Sometimes you can't get the shot

I've pulled over here by the road because there is this wonderful thing out here in this field. It's this big empty field, except there is this one bit of vegetation that's making this beautiful S-curve through the whole field ending up with those wonderful clouds, and almost at the apex of one of those curves is that tree which is this wonderfully nice little accent. So, I am here. I am lined up. I take my shot and this is what I get. It just doesn't quite work, the S-curve is little too compressed. It just looks a little flat. Plainly, I'm too low. I need to get higher. I can try standing on the car. I don't have anything else to stand on. There are no trees around to climb. I just can't get this shot. I'm not doing anything wrong here. I am just not tall enough, and even if I was taller, then I might be running in the telephone wires up there. There are a tremendous number of beautiful scenes to photograph in the world. There aren't necessarily the same numbers of photographic…

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