I used to think that anything human or human made couldn’t possibly warrant my time to photograph it.  It would drive me crazy to come to a beach and see footprints in the sand, have people crawling all over rock formations, cruise ships sailing into perfect sunsets, etcetera, etcetera.  I wandered down to hideaways beach in Kauai, and proceeded to set up a long exposure (3 minutes).   I wanted to express the complimentary colors of the blue Hawaiian sea against the orange glow of its sand.  There was a family with young children enjoying the same beach as I was setting up.   I set up and tripped the shutter.   Approximately 1 minute into my 3 minute exposure one of the kids ran right through my photograph.  The mother of the child graciously came over to me and said, “Im so sorry did  she ruin your picture.”  Just then the shutter tripped again ending the entire photograph.   The picture showed up on the LCD, and she said, “Wow!”  Then I said, “I guess not!”   Aristotle said that the aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.   It was nice to have a child running through the surf teach me that lesson.