So near yet so far..

Sometimes you almost make a good photo. The reasons you don't could be camera error, human error or just pure bad luck. On Saturday I was shooting Perthshire v Morgan in a Premier 3 rugby match. The match was pretty close until Perthshire scored a hatrick of tries in the closing minutes of the game. One of the shots I took was the one below. Almost a good image but for human error - the focus is not on the Pete Saunders with the ball as he ran in the last try but is a few inches behind. As I said almost a good shot.

This was the third of the tries so by the time it was shot most important images were taken. But imagine this was the try that decided the game, then a what should I have done. Send it to the newspaper despite it being out of focus? How many newspapers would publish an OOF image which was crucial to the outcome of the game? Quite a few I would imagine. A similar discussion took place over at the Sportsshooter website a while back http://www.sportsshooter.com/message_display.html?tid=27164

Some other images from that game.