Pink panther

Just when I think it's time to pack up and go, the light switch turns on. I scramble aimlessly in search for a comp to throw together. Luckily, I'm in a familiar location. A previous image comes to mind that I had taken before, but was in the same scenario and didn't think 100%. I remembered though, that the shot was horizontal, and I had wanted to try some vertical comps of this scene. I head towards the spot paying no attention to the ground. "Crunch, Crunch" is all I hear as I walk over fallen cholla pups. I feel something funny in my foot, but the light is too good and I must fire off a few shots before it disappears. I check the exposure, aperture, and all the fun stuff and frame up my shot, vertical this time. I watch as the pinks in the clouds become stronger and almost instantly the color is gone. I check the the couple frames and head home. I still have that funky feeling in my foot and something keeps scratching against the gas pedal. I stop, get some gas and check my boot, three pieces of cholla spines are jammed in there. I pull the first one out, a short one, the second one I pull out, a little longer, but no harm done. Then the last one, a spine almost two inches long emerges from my boot with a blood red tip. Hole in the sock, hole in the foot, but the light was a hole in one. The fun of photographing in the desert.

Canon 7d
Canon 17-40mm @17mm
F/16
0.6 sec
ISO 100
3 stop grad ND
Tripod