A 'flare' for photographs

Sorry couldn't resist that title to sum up this post. I took some photographs of my mother in the 'golden light' I like to call it, late in the afternoon when the sun is just beginning to set. I always aim to get some 'flare' in the photos that I am taking when the light is like this, I love a bit of flare in my photographs (a lot of people don't 'get it') but I like the extra addition! It actually harps back to the days when I used to get my film processed from the lab and they would put all these stickers on the relevant photos to reflect that having the flare in the pic was a grave error on my part and to make sure I don't make that 'mistake' again - I used to get bummed about that! But now I purposely add it, and so if you do get photographs with a certain flare in your proofing gallery please be rest assured that I know what I'm doing and its MEANT to be like that! LOL! Anyway now do you get the picture (?)...sorry enough with the duff puns!