Over the past few years, I've taken literally more than a thousand shots of UNC's Old Well. It's my favorite photography subject in the world. The well is always a popular spot for photographers, but in mid-April each year, the blossoms around it peak, and on any given afternoon, you'll find five or six folks hanging around trying to take shots of campus landmark.
Today, class started at 9:00, and I decided to take the 7:00 bus to campus so that I could spend 90 minutes or so photographing before the crowds arrived. My goal lately has been to find new shots that I haven't thought of before. Today, I focused on this one. I must have taken 75 versions of this shot between my morning visit and then when I returned again after class in the afternoon. I could tell that it was a good idea, because many of the other photographers (even the ones with high end cameras and lenses) started coming over to my spot to take the same shot. All of us found it more difficult than we'd expected, and I left feeling like I hadn't quite captured the picture I had in my mind. However, when I got home and uploaded photos, I was very pleased with this one.
As it turns out, I took it in my morning session, during which I only tried this shot about 5 times. When I returned in the afternoon to take about 70 more, I didn't get anything nearly this nice!
