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An accidental photo I took at the restaurant last night. Out for dinner with friends. Sushi night!!!
{ Explored #90 }
In reality, serendipity accounts for one percent of the blessings we receive
in life, work and love. The other 99 percent is due to our efforts.
~Peter McWilliams
...as I wasn't in quest of it when I headed to the coast.
This was a cross lighting between the cold from a fishing boat and the warmth from the rising moon. 5 minutes in the dark cumulating photons, and trying to balance the upper, much brighter part with the lower rocks. I wasn't sure of the result until I saw the film returned from the lab. This is a straight scan of the chrome (Kodak 100VS).
Photo of April 2008, Art of Landscape
Winner of 500x500 contest, week 13
Admittedly, it will no longer be Sunday by the time most people see this photo (but, when you have a 5-year-old who doesn't go to bed until almost 9:00 PM, when is there time to post earlier?) -- and I actually took this photo on a Friday -- but, for now, it's still Sunday, and this catch was serendipitous.
In this age of smartphones, there's not many trains in the fairly-populated New York Capital Region that catch me by surprise (I have to go to more sparsely-populated areas like St. Lawrence County for that). But, this one totally caught me by surprise. I was out with my aforementioned 5-year old, William, not quite sure what the day would hold. I figured our day might bring us to a playground in Amsterdam (that, of course, is right next to CSX's Mohawk Subdivision), but I figured I'd drive through Fisherman's Lane in Schaghticoke (on the old B&M West End) first before continuing west. Almost as soon as we pulled in, the automatic to the east turned green. I figured a 16R was coming, but I was very pleasantly surprised when I heard "Loaded Grain Train with the BNSF 7088" call MOW nearby. I figured, "Okay, maybe a BNSF leader with 'blobs' behind it," but I was even more surprised when the train rounded the bend with an all-BNSF lashup!
This would pretty much be the only place William and I saw the sun all day, but the orange engines piqued William's interest enough that he expressed interest in chasing. So, chase we did, which later gave us an excuse to visit the East Portal of Hoosac Tunnel -- a place I usually try to bring William if we're chasing an eastbound.
B&E Loaded Grain Train
Schaghticoke, NY
December 1, 2023
Even though we have snow on the ground... this little Milkweed seed was waiting for me on my doorstep, giving me an impromptu macro photo opp.
Sweet Springs Nature Preserve,
San Luis Obispo Co., California
I have been to this site countless times but nearly always in the morning. I came upon this scene that has looked so ordinary in other light. Serendipity!
So I drove out to a country road to photograph what promised to be the good sunset, the first really good one in months. Imagine my surprise when a dozen skydivers popped out of the sky, floated past the flaming colors, and landed in a random field to the west of me!
Somewhere between Davis, Ca., and Winters, Ca. November, 2020.
After a day of relentless heavy showers, the beautiful evening conditions were totally unexpected. It was a real bonus therefore to be able to take a very pleasant walk along the beach at Meols.
Capturing a seaplane on approach, that is.
Taken from Stanley Park looking across Vancouver Harbor. Always amazes me that this dense city has preserved such a large, accessible area for Green Space.
It was serendipity. While tracing gull steps at my favorite beach, I spied something flash in the sand. An old bottle had washed up and something was inside. After wrestling with the cork, I pulled out a folded piece of paper. It was from my LA friend, Hillany, who had disappeared on her way to a Phish concert nearly two months ago!!
I read with shaking hands. She'd been gone so long. No one had heard from her and we feared for her safety. She thought nothing of going off on her own with only her backpack and relying on the generosity of other Phish fans.
The note was short. It read: "HELP! I am hostage in a warehouse near Seattle. Guys have guns and bad breath. Please find me. Hillany Scofield."
My first thought was to contact our friend Doutz who lived near there and get her on the case. There was no time to waste!
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The White Canvas Gallery challenges you to write your own story.
1. Someone has to tag you for you to qualify to do a sequel picture.
2. Assuming someone has tagged you, you have 3 days to think of a sequel picture and post it to Flickr. If you cannot do it then ask the person who tagged you to tag someone else. (3 days time period is done to keep this moving at a fair pace). If the storyline gets stuck with someone for too long, the moderators or admins of this group reserve the right to assign it to someone else in the group just to keep it moving. So dont lose your chance !
3. Tag someone to follow you, they will need to create another pic within 3 days, help them as much as you can.
4. Post your pic to this group
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5. Feel free to write out your story in the description, just make sure these rules appear on your post at the bottom of your description
6. To help with sequence, i strongly urge that you start your title with "Scene [number]". the number is whatever your scene number is, one more than the previous.
Original Post (Scene 1):
Some things just look better upside down. The water is the sky and the sky is the water...or so it seems. Discovered by accident, of course. Wake Forest , North Carolina. USA.
I can't help smiling when I look at this shot. This is another one from my last visit to Sussex Prairie Garden on a very windy afternoon. Everyone who knows me is well aware that I 'don't do' moving subjects. I was, of course, focussing on a flower when the bee decided to photo bomb me. To be honest, I didn't actually see the bee until I looked at my images at home. :)
Serendipities Camouflage'
iColorama & Procreate with some repix drips brush work. 3 iPhone photos, 1 drawing/ painting for dear ears & antlers done in Procreate. Wet in Wet watercolor background created initially in iColorama using watercolor brushes which were smudged using Brush/ Tools/ Smudge as start with further additions & work in iColorama.
I was choosing between two pictures for our weekly theme but I went with the other one because I thought it would distract less from Becky's picture.
This picture was actually mildly serendipitous but I am way too lazy to explain why, so just trust me on this one ;)
After spending most of the day around more well known photo locations, I was driving home and the light on the center trees caught my eye. Fortunately, I was able to pull over and get a couple of shots while the light was still good.
Having recently seen a couple of images of a loch I hadn't visited before, the purpose of my last trip was to go to Loch A'Bhraoin for sunset. I had checked TPE and Google Maps for times/directions and a suitable place to park so was expecting a (locked) gated track just beyond the Corrieshalloch viewpoint. Having found said gate and parked up I set off along the track though was surprised when the hard surface ended after about 100m and became a very boggy quad-bike track. Undeterred I pressed on, often anke deep in mud. I was expecting a walk in of around 1km or 15 mins or so but wasn't too surprised that things seemed to be taking a bit longer due to the difficult terrain. However, after 35-40mins with still no sign of the loch I realised something wasn't right. I took out my phone and consuling Google again found I was still a way from the loch and that I had parked at the wrong gate - plonker!! There was no time to turn back and still get to Loch A'Bhraoin in time and anyway it was looking unlikely that there would be a decent sunset so I decided to cut my losses. Leaving the 'path' I headed down to the Abhainn (river) Cuileig where I had seen a line of dead trees and found a suitable rock jutting into the water to shoot from. My earlier luck from Loch Droma returned as the cloud cleared from the hills ahead leaving me a lovely backdrop to these pretty falls (though I was ever so slightly cross that I couldn't move any further to the right to get full seperation of the tree from the hill).
The entire Yellowstone National Park is one of the most serendipitious region that we have ever visited or witnessed. You'd be drivng or walking in a nature reserve, which would yes of course be peaceful & beautiful, but suddenly you'd turn a corner to a jaw dropping, absolute stunner of a natural wonder that you'd be hard pressed to imagine even in your wildest of dreams.
As you drive unawares through the West Thumb region & it's camouflaged driveway to a non descript Plain Jane parking lot of the Blue Funnel Spring, you are absolutely unaware of the surprise awaiting you. You loiter slowly through the walkway & "Ka-Boom!"
You are standing in front of this absolute Gem of a hissing, sizzling hot water spring called the Blue Funnel Spring. The water body in the background is the huge Yellowstone Lake. The region has one of the most azure colored hot water springs, which contains various mineral particles that absorb all light wavelengths but reflect blue & hence the intense blue coloration.
This snap was taken at Chaowki Ghat ,Varanasi. I found these colourful clothes were oscillating from a rope and some people were busy to clean the rest of clothes at the bank. At first I imagined this frame in my mind and started to wait there. After around half an hour, two people came with some more clothes and I got my chance to make the frame.
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thank you for the title Frank Loose.
The petal of a parrot tulip, dropped off and was caught on the leaf.
At first I was frustrated and irritated?
Then... I saw the potential, my creativity was stimulated... and, it became a small series! Serendipity, lol.
Now I love images that are different, and this here truly captured my imagination!
Beyond the obvious! Love it!
Each time I think... that's it, there's only so much you can do with flowers... and yet again and again, I'll see something new.
Being creative is not a choice... it is an urge in me.
READ MORE HERE, Blog: href="magdaindigo.blogspot.com/2010/01/about-innovative-creativity.html
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Massive stacked lenticular clouds and a cap lenticular over Mt. Rainier during blue hour last night. This weather fairy was jumping up and down in the dark. (Until I heard a large animal close by and then I ran to my car :D.) Sunset clouded up on the south side of the mountain so I drove all the way around to the north. This was my payoff. Today was completely fogged-in so I felt particularly lucky to get this.
Nikon d810 | 5-shot panorama with Zeiss 25mm | f/2 \ 10 sec. | ISO 320
... just because you can't see it doesn't mean it isn't real.
I've said it before but somethings need to be heard at least twice.
Spit it out, Gucci!
Can't leave you alone for a minute!
Oh, how serendipitous to find a Blythe picture already uploaded, that hasn't been included in a group. The rest of the neophytes had a vote and decided that garrulous, sagacious and dauntless Solki Blythe is the one most likely to use any of the words on this list. She's busy at the moment trying to keep Gucci from eating the wee bear -- I'm sure if she knew I was posting her picture she'd have a plethora of thoughts on the subject. Sorry, guys -- I haven't had a spare minute to go through the pictures in the group. Hope to get back to the plangonology soon.
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