Serendipity

I went to the Ed Sheeran concert in Dublin on Jan 11th, and I was looking through my pictures and found this one which I took by accident, and I actually fell in love with it.

Walking around Manchester taking some candid photos, this guy looked at me just I was about to take the photo, he winked...perfect and cheeky

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Lens：BCL1580

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Stopped on the way home to get a reflection photograph of some yellow flowers by the canal. As I was messing about trying to get a good angle I noticed the wildlife buzzing around this plant on my side of the water. Seemed a better photograph all round, purely by chance.

Serendipity: The occurrence and development of events by chance in a happy or beneficial way.

Serendipity- Finding something nice while looking for something else.

i was out with Paige shooting a video and ending up taking some pictures, so that basically explains to whole 'serendipity' :)

i'm thinking of doing more fashion photography, it's something i really want to get into and since putting a few of my pictures onto my facebook page, i've had really good feedback from friends who are willing to model for me. i know i'm still quite young and not had any lessons or well anything really before and i can't take photography at GCSE so i have to wait to do it at A level but i guess you have to start somewhere. i don't know, it's something to think about.

-L xo

Serendipidy.

Usually I know whether a phtograh will be a keeper or a discard when I take a shot. I was totally wrong when I took this photo as I was convinced it would be a discard.

I was walking allong a hedgrow on a sunny but late afternoon. I found a flock of mixed sparrows in deep shadow in the tangled brush so I swtiched to my flash. Suddenly this chickadee perched for a moment higher up but still in shadow, but the background was very brightly lit.

I was able to get one very quick shot bu I knew that I had not allowed time for the lens to proper focus, the lighting contrast was far too extreme to get a decent exposure and that the very bright back ground would be totally over exposed. I was amazed when I saw the result - I cannot explain why the background turned out this way, but I like the result.

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A couple of hours spent at TankSpace a studio with a huge water tank and a rainfall set. www.tankspace.co.uk/

Thanks to staff and models for their help and support..

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I was out wildflowering my way around the Mojave over a long weekend during the spectacular En Nino of 1998. I had left another site at dusk and driven most of the way to Joshua Tree, my target for the next day, and was looking for a place to pull off the road and camp. So I turned off the highway and followed an unnamed dirt road off into the desert. There were cars on a neighboring road that remained visible out across the flat desert as I drove, and I was feeling a little paranoid because I was traveling alone, so I drove for probably a few miles until I found a spot that seemed a bit more secluded. I could see there were flowers nearby as I turned in for the night in the bed of the pickup shell. And the perfume from the dune evening-primrose was so intense that I spent the night with my sinuses all stuffed up. But I had only the barest inkling of the sight that was to greet me at dawn. I'm posting 2 shots: 1 just before sunup & the other just after.

When people talk about a wildflower bloom in the desert, you have to realize: it's very localized, keenly dependent on where there was a cloudburst or two, what the elevation and soil conditions are, etc. You'll drive for miles and miles with nary a petal, and then all of a sudden there'll be a patch like this. Up until now, I had just been following ranger station reports & online 'hotlines'. But this site I found all by myself, and that made it special.

Encontrar algo bueno sin buscarlo

Waterlily and reflection.

acrylic on panel, 36"x12"

Currently hanging at Peter Street Fine Arts - www.peterstfinearts.weebly.com in Orillia, Ontario.

serendipity beach, sihanoukville - cambodia

Serendipity

una pausa, per Chiloè, tra le barchette

no photoshop, just photo

This is one of my best movies ever..watch it & u'll like it..

This is where I got my nickname..I watched it about 3 years

ago maybe..

About the movie>>>

Cast overview..

John Cusack .... Jonathan Trager

Kate Beckinsale .... Sara Thomas

Lilli Lavine .... Bloomingdale's Stock Girl

Michael Guarino Jr. .... Customer at Bloomingdale's (as Michael Guarino)

Abdul Alshawish .... Customer at Bloomingdale's

Ann Talman .... Bloomingdale's Saleswoman #1

Crystal Bock .... Bloomingdale's Saleswoman #2

Stephen Bruce .... Host at Serendipity

David Sparrow .... Josh's Dad

Gary Gerbrandt .... Josh

Jeremy Piven .... Dean Kansky

Bridget Moynahan .... Halley Buchanan

Kate Blumberg .... Courtney Kansky

Ron Payne .... Louis Trager

Marcia Bennett .... Mrs. Louis Trager

The story..

The plot premise, in a particularly streamlined nutshell: In holiday-season Manhattan, Sara Thomas (Kate Beckinsale) and Jonathan Trager (John Cusack) meet cute and, although they both have Significant Others, they end up spending a charming and romantic evening on the town (including coffee and dessert at the aptly-named Serendipity III restaurant). Despite their obvious chemistry, Sara insists on leaving their future up to fate (she turns out to be a therapist, so you'd think she'd know better, but more on that momentarily), whereupon they get separated in the Waldorf=Astoria. Years later, Sara and Jon are both engaged to other people, but can't stop thinking about one another, so they each take a last stab at finding each other again before their respective nuptials. Knowing what a big John Cusack fan I am, a friend of mine recommended I rent SERENDIPITY. Between a parade of people phoning us and our own busy schedules, however, I had almost as much trouble getting to finally sit down and watch the DVD from start to finish as Jon and Sara did trying to get back together in the film itself! But it was worth the effort: even though I was growling at Sara under my breath for being so stupid as to leave their budding romance up to fate instead of running off with Jon when she had the chance (and was Sara so new to NYC that it never occurred to her that other people might take Jon's elevator in the Waldorf=Astoria during their decisive elevator race? Do fate and common sense have to be mutually exclusive?), I found Cusack and Beckinsale so endearing and so full of romantic chemistry (and they both looked yummy, I might add) that I found myself forgiving a lot and rooting for them to get back together. Marc Klein's script is so chock-full of funny and frustrating near-misses that at times I found SERENDIPITY as suspenseful as a Hitchcock film! :-) NYC and San Francisco locations are used wonderfully (I was pleased to see that although the second floor of Serendipity III as shown in the film was quiet enough for Sara and Jon to hear each other talk, it was still as crowded as it usually is on a holiday week! :-). Cusack and Beckinsale are surrounded by a delightful supporting cast, too, particularly Jeremy Piven and Molly Shannon as their respective best friends and the scene-stealing Eugene Levy as an officious, self-serving Bloomingdale's salesman. I also found it refreshing that the filmmakers didn't take the obvious route of making the leads' current Significant Others so horrible that you can't imagine what attracted Our Heroes to these creeps in the first place (that sort of thing always makes me lose respect for both the protagonist *and* the screenwriter). Bridget Moynihan and John Corbett (did the casting directors just stroll on over to the set of SEX AND THE CITY one day and say "Who's free to make a movie?" :-) were appealing enough that I could understand what Cusack and Beckinsale saw in them, yet they were just self-absorbed enough and not-quite-on-our-heroes'-wavelength enough that I didn't feel bad when they got dumped. If romantic whimsy is your bag, give SERENDIPITY a try.

Serendipity = موهبة اكتشاف الأشياء السارة مصادفة

Michael Sowa

Mural by JUKES aka @alizarin_Crimson, seen at 362 NW 7th Avenue in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Drone photo by James aka @urbanmuralhunter on that other photo site.

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have wanted to shoot this frank gehry building for a while - in lower manhattan to help our oldest son, had the chance to shoot it from near federal plaza - 8 spruce st, manhattan, nyc

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Tonight I went back to try and get a better pic of this little guy, but the birdhouse was empty so I think this was a juvenile just hanging there for a bit. Another shot from last night of this nocturnal cutie.

Taken with my iPhone

A chance meeting, or inevitable destiny? Here we all are, me, Merlin and a passing stranger at this juxtaposition of a moment's glance. Ill met or Kismet? Is it all a set up by the denizens of Olympus, are we playthings upon an unknowable game of cosmic chess? And why is Merlin living on an old canal boat called 'Rosie' on the Regents Canal at Kings Cross instead of Camelot?

Questions, questions, questions...

Perhaps I shall pay Merlin a visit to see if he can enlighten me with his Tarot cards. I have a feeling, though, that he's probably not who he says he is. I mean, Merlin Trotter? Doesn't exactly conjure up images of the age of chivalry, knights in armour and magic, does it? On second thoughts, I'll give it a miss.

"In the field of observation, chance favours only the prepared mind" (L. Pasteur)

I thought the shoot was ruined but when I converted it to B&W a new world opened up..

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I put this tack down on the paper and it rolled around like a top in it's dying seconds and came to rest like this. I couldn't get it to balance this way on purpose.

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