Day 4: Tricia

It snowed most of the day on the fourth, and I live on a street that usually doesn't get plowed. I really wanted a shot at sunset, in the middle of the snow-covered road, with the string of street lights disappearing in the background. I went out and set up two light stands. One for a reflective umbrella key light, and another for a gridded speedlight rim light. Because it was breezy, I packed the bases of the stands into the deep snow on the side of the road to keep them from blowing over.
My wife came outside, stood where I asked her to, and just as I was about to take the first test shot, she gasped at the falling light stand that I couldn't see through the viewfinder. The flash was fine but the umbrella was pretty badly bent, and while I straightened the bows, she went to get our son to hold the stand for me.

By now the sun had set and in the dark the camera was struggling to focus, and as we were fiddling with a phone flash light for focus assist, the umbrella blew out of the bracket and just kept going. That's when my tantrum began and we moved indoors. She talked me down, and the final image is a much more representative of her than one involving snow.