Last Shot

I rode the one mile distance from the house on the mountain bike to the Price Creek Cemetery. It was windy and the sun was coming in and out rapidly. I knew the dogwood tree was in full bloom and I wanted to capture it in full sun, with shadow of the old oak framing it. Of the nearly fifty frames I took, from various angles, this was the last frame. Was it the best, the culmination? I would not necessarily say so. Sometimes, we are simply lazy and do not feel like taking the time to study critically the details.
I used the D3100 with the 18-55lens, with two ND graduated filters stacked. One just doesn't darken enough for my liking. But, the gradated point is square in the middle of the frame so some of the nice dogwood was darkened. In this last frame I did not use the graduated filters. I have a set of square graduated filters I forget to take along that would have allowed me to hold the graduated spot higher up above the dogwood. Then, I would have needed to take the tripod along, which I should use, but again, too lazy to carry it on the mountain bike. How much better we would be if we weren't so lazy!