It’s difficult to take a bad photo of an American flag.
I know that in my many decades of taking photos for newspapers, I’m always happy if I can get ol’ red, white and blue in the background, or somehow framing the photo. It just adds “pop” to a photo.
And sometimes, the flag simply dominates the photo. If you take a look at the photo with this column, I took that years ago at a beach ceremony here in Venice. When I saw the sun in the background, I kept moving myself around until I got the photo you see…