When I saw Andrea's latest Superhero Photo Challenge at Shutter Sisters to try shooting directly into the sun I immediately remembered this set of photos taken exactly one year ago this week that I never shared. I love how in the challenge she encourages you to break the traditional rules of photography to see what you will get because I feel EXACTLY the same way. I have actually gotten some of my best stuff by doing just that.

This series was taken with my old camera (the D50) while at the beach for a week last Winter and I really have no idea how most of them ended up with the crazy stripe of sun blasted out across like this...

I toyed with the idea of photoshopping the crazy sun stripe out but decided instead to leave them just as they came out of the camera. Kinda otherworldly/star trekky huh?

(No children were harmed in the making of these images...instead this is a perfectly captured moment of our friend Dennis playing 'Kung Fu Ninja' with one daughter Annie while his other daughter Maggie jogs by.)