I took this picture in the beginning of 2009. There is no camera or photoshop trick in this picture at all. It is exactly the way the camera recorded the image. Its a result of my flash just blasting way too much light. I had everything set right, but for some reason it just exploded with light for 3 frames in a row. I thought it looked interesting in the back of my camera and decided not to delete it even though I knew it wouldn't be used in the paper. When I got back and saw that the washed out woman had a faint smiley face I decided I needed to save this picture. Its one of those happy accidents(pun intended). That night, only a few moments later after I got a handle on the lighting and the flash I also took perhaps my favorite photograph of 2009 which I included below. Its a picture of the same woman, Lillian Cervi who was having a blast dancing around the renovated ballroom of the Cordia Commons, or the old David Mead Inn, to some live music. Meadville Tribune mistakes and photographs by Richard Sayer