Well, the title kind of says it all. I had been wanting to get this shot with the kite much closer to the center and a nice smooth tail loop. A gust of wind brought it within feet of a crash into both camera/photog! This was the panic press of the button on the way out! That said, compared to the rest that day it was the closest approach which I thought worked better in the end.
Canon 5D classic
24L lens
f-stop 5.6
1/500 second
iso 100
ec +2/3rds I believe
shot December 10th, Tasmania
Be gentle, I have never entered one of these before
I didn't get to do any cropping at all other than some on the bottom. As I shifted and shot/dodged, I turned a bit right as well. Compositionally that cost me having the whole tree in on the left as was planned which would have been nice; the kite was supposed to be in that gap and farther away (so a bit smaller in the image) allowing cropping at least some of the hill on the right where there wasn't much of note (until this shot anyway). The saving grace was that at least my fluke didn't chop off any of the wing tip in the top right and left just enough space to get some but not all of the sun (which likely would have killed the exposure).
Whats funny is the one fluke shot is the one that I thought came out best - I have several 'ok' candidates from the planned shot but none of them were as interesting. If its bad to admit a fluke shot, then uh, cough, I planned this one out to the millimeter with a tape measure and a world champion kite flier
