When making mistakes is a virtue

I’ve been photographing the sky for thirty years and yet, to shoot the Perseids, I made a setup mistake on my camera and I threw away one hour of startrail. In the whole set of mechanisms run by apps and by the algorithms of my Eos1DxMk2, the weak link was the human mind. When I understood what the problem was, I had a jolt and a shiver took me back to the emotions I felt when I photographed with slides and manual SLRs. The feelings and the amazement I had when I separated the well-made slides from the wrong ones. The human mind returned to the center and prevailed for the worse (before) and for the better (after). In a world where covers and contests are won with photos coming from phones, where one click is enough to shoot without even suspecting the photographic mechanisms, bringing the risk of making mistakes back to the center means adding value to the image and flavor to the taste of knowing how to do.