Otherwise titled “The One that Got Away”

As my daughter and I were leaving home to walk the dog this evening, she (my daughter, not the dog) grabbed the camera. Even with the camera along though, taking pictures was the last thing on my mind. After we’d been out for about a half hour, I hear “Wow, beautiful” and I turn to see my daughter looking east, transfixed by the way the setting sun is hitting the buildings.

I grab the camera, run to a good spot, and start taking pictures, but the sun is SETTING and I don’t have much time. Then I realize the exposure is set all wrong on the camera. I fix that and snap one more, line up what looks like a perfect shot, and… everything goes blank. The batteries died. The sun set and the shot was gone. All I have is this not-so-bad one. It will have to do.