The single second of a photo
Do you ever look back at photos and find a picture that captured a moment that to the outsider looks so perfect but you know it wasn’t? But in that single second it looked perfect. One family photo springs to mind of us all on a sandy beach a few years ago - big smiles with the sun and Welsh sea behind us. But the truth behind that photo is actually a pretty disastrous trip. It started with a difficult car journey (car sickness), then nowhere to park and Little C’s dad doing that dad thing where they get really angry at the fact there’s nowhere to park. So we end up driving up and down the main beach road for a good 30 minutes, debating whether to give up and go back to the caravan, until we finally find a space. Next came the cold wet sand (it didn’t look wet), then after 10 minutes of shivering on the wet sand we noticed all the other families packing up to leave and we then realised that the tide was very quickly coming in. Before we left I took a photo of all of us. We’re smil...