"Some of your 'mistakes' make the best photos."
My photography professor told me this during what was otherwise a fairly miserable experience in his class. (I'm lucky I ever picked up a camera again. Just sayin'.) In this case, I was taking photos of a jungle gym. Somehow, I hit the shutter without realizing it. When I looked at the photos, I saw a blurry jungle gym. I thought the photo was dreadful. My professor saw a shot with lots of movement. Pretty soon, I saw the potential in that photo, too.
I took this photo under similar circumstances.
It's moss, but I hit the shutter too soon, so it has that surreal look going on. For better or for worse, I didn't crop it, PhotoShop it, nothing.
Here's another example.
Again, I hit he shutter without meaning to. Immediately I saw that if I cropped it, I could have a really cool shadow photo. I did, and voila!
In college I would never have considered doing anything with EITHER photo. But with my professor widening my horizons, now I look at my "mistakes" almost as hard as I look at my "winners."
Occasionally, I put down my camera. When I do, you can find me at Ramblings by Reba. There are lots of photos there, too. 
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Awesome. Gives me hope that all my horrible photos are actually secretly cool.