Moving Pictures

This is the one certain time of the year that I definitely don’t stick to my own guidelines of using only pictures from VF & G.  September is the month that Vicktory Farm and Gardens moves into different locations.  Early September we expand to the mountains, mid-September we move to The Fair.

I had no idea while I was at The Fair what this week’s Header Challenge would be. (By the way go to the side board when you’re done here and see what the other challengers have this week.) I came home to find that Sandy has chosen “Moving Pictures” for the theme.  Great!  I got one for that.  I normally would have tossed it, for its poor quality, dark barn, nearly dead camera battery and movement and all I got was blur. 

But I couldn’t.  It was a moment in time that definitely needs to be captured and kept. 

It was the end of The Fair, time to break down and go home. Because we bring our own pens, and nursery, it takes us a bit to get broken down and ready to haul out.  We end up waiting for others to pull in and load.  We’ve learned to be totally patient and to make sure we stay in a light hearted mood.

Dirt is usually always light hearted but he rarely does silly things.  This time he did and I was barely prepared to capture it on digit.

Dirt and Mike Bowerman had come back into the barn with a bird crate in a large wheel barrow. Mike was able to talk Dirt into getting in the barrow once they took the crate out.  Not sure how that happened, just goes to show how well Dirt and Mike, busy tired men, stay on top of their good moods while waiting their turn to get the heck home after some grueling days.

I get that it is technically a horrible picture, unless of course I fake that I intended for the picture to come out the way it did, you know to show the motion of the moment.  But I can’t lie, it wasn’t intentional, just a poorly taken shot that I fortunately have an excuse to use.  A moment in time, a moving moment in more ways than one, but isn’t that why we take pictures, attempting to capture those moments that quickly move out of view?