I came across these two young women taking pictures the other day. It wasn’t really the best time of day to be taking pictures – but then I too was taking pictures at that time. Sometimes it’s the only time you have available. Judging by the shadows the sun was directly over the photographers shoulder and straight into the face of the subject. It was quite bright at that time so I imagine the subject was squinting rather badly. Since the light was directly on the subject I doubt there was much modeling. There was lots of nice open shade around, which would have been nice for portraits. As I know all too well, however, when you’re caught up in the process of picture taking you tend not to think of these things. They always occur to me afterwards: I should have done this; I should have done that etc. Sometimes I learn and do better the next time. More often than none I repeat the same old mistakes. I have to learn more patience and to think a little more before I start taking pictures.