This is a friend's child who I've been photographing for a while and had some trouble. Not sure why, she's very photogenic, I just haven't quite gotten a shot I like.

Then my wife popped her own cowgirl hat on this girl's head as we were down on our dock and Voila! My favorite shot of her.

Sometimes photography, like anything else, seems more of a matter of sticktoitiveness than talent or ability or anything. Edison had it right, 90% perspiration...