Oh, I _so_ sympathize with your plight, Darren. Well expressed! All I can add is that it's a worthwhile exercise to think about how you _would_ have positioned yourself and setup for each of those ops in the event that you ever get the chance again.
A year ago November, I was walking the dog on a foggy morning and saw the most perfect landscape of trees in mist, but of course, no camera with me. But I thought about that scene for the rest of the day. The next morning, with no expectations and little hope, I took my camera on the dog walk. As luck would have it, the very same foggy conditions occurred and I got my shot. And not only that, I entered it in a call for artists and was accepted and had it exhibited. It's one of my two or three Landscape Greatest Hits. :-) On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:32 AM, Darren Addy <[email protected]> wrote: > Creative photo opportunities have been few and far between for me > recently. Winters in Nebraska aren't exactly inspiring (most of the > time). But it is amazing how many times you see great images when you > are least able to capture them (Murphy's Law of Photography?) > > Got up this morning, predawn, to walk the dog before leaving for work > and there was a gorgeous and striking conjunction of the crescent moon > and venus in the southeast. Then leaving for work (1 degree F) I > decided to take the interstate which parallels the flat Platte River > basin and I was struck by the gorgeous fog coming off of the frozen > ponds, lakes, and river & creek channels. Trees and bushes were > frosted white by their overnight exposure to the freezing fog. The > scene got even more beautiful as the sun crept over the horizon and > bathed everything in that warm morning light. Turning north off the > interstate to take the final leg to work I saw, near the road, a > cluster of geese sitting on the ice enshrouded in more fog. Then > looking west, I saw horses bathed in the same warm light, breath comng > out of their nostrils. > > I was cursing the fact that I had to bypass each of these photo > opportunities due to the call of a timeclock, but if I was honest with > myself I probably would not have even witnessed any of these scenes if > I hadn't been on my way to work. My lazy butt would probably have > still been under the warm covers while all of these excellent (and > frozen) photo opportunities passed in my blissful, slumbering > ignorance. > > Still, I'm glad to have "captured" them with the eye of a > photographer. It is more than possible that my visualization of the > images is better than my actual execution in capturing them > photographically would have been. Everything is perfect in the > theoretical. But while visual exercises are nice, it is in the actual > photographic capture that we find our greatest pleasure and it gives > us the opportunity to relive those moments of transient beauty each > time we look at them. > > I probably should have been another 15 minutes late to work and > captured at least ONE of them. > > Darren Addy > Kearney, Nebraska > -- > Photographers must learn not to be ashamed to have their photographs > look like photographs. > ~ Alfred Stieglitz > > -- > PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List > [email protected] > http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- -bmw -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
