Fail? I Think Not

You're at a party taking photos. The room has low light so you shoot with a flash. Then you turn off the flash (so no one notices you taking photos) and try to shoot with existing light. Unless you're a mannequin or are using a tripod, you're probably going to get blurry images. And then you get something like this.

At first glance this looks like a fail for sure - it's blurry and has all those streaky lights. But on second thought, this is kind of cool. The blur gives it a smokey atmosphere and the light trails are really interesting. It makes you want to look through the smoke to see what's going on and that's what makes an interesting photo - the need to look at it again or to try to look deeper to see what's going on. Not every photo has to be sharp, clear and immediately accessible.