Lucky
August 14, 2012, 10:12 pm
I am not a good photographer. Training in art enables me to recognize a bad photo, and most of my pictures are only memory joggers for my own consumption….”to keep a moment from running away” as Eudora Welty so succinctly phrased it. I’m content to view the work of others to experience photography as an art form.
Nevertheless, luck is a true presence in all of our lives. So once in every 5,000 photos, I get lucky and an aesthetically pleasing photo happens. Here are three which, to my amazement, appear to have worked.
Blaise Finds the Sun
Pacific Beach
Mackinac Bridge
I must note that while taking this bridge shot, I was saying,”Well, this one isn’t going to work!” It was taken through the windshield as we were traveling 55 mph on the bumpy, metal bridge roadbed.
Good photographers can make magic happen. The rest of us must patiently wait for luck to grace us.
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Greetings and welcome...
The Suitcase Lady Blog is now in its thirteenth year. I am obviously a believer in these words from E. B. White. "We should all do what, in the long run, gives us joy, even if it is only picking grapes or sorting the laundry." Thank you for reading the writing that I delight in doing.
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August 22nd, 2012 on 11:13 AM
Mary, I love to read your blog….you have such a gift with words! I especially loved Finale!
August 22nd, 2012 on 12:10 PM
And you, Mary, are so graced and we are so graced with your creativity.
Thank you!
August 29th, 2012 on 12:45 AM
These are indeed wonderful and beautiful. Thanks for sharing them. I think Blaise in the sun might be a special winner….especially for us cat appreciators…