jkn
01-24-2006, 12:12 AM
Everyone has those moments where you wish you had your camera on you - or something you saw and meant to go back to, but when you did it was gone... What have you missed?
A few of mine:
+ Pulled into my driveway after work and only 10 feet from me as I got out of the car was this immensely tall blue heron... easily up to my chin in height. It just looked at me from that short distance away. I tried to slip into the house to get my camera - but by the time I got back out - it had taken off. Oddly - I live in a city of 22,000 so it picking there to drop down to drink water from our ditch or whatever it was doing was very odd.
+ Some area near us was being excavated - taking the dirt somewhere else - I assume flattening it for a building sometime soon... (progress! cough) - and interestingly there was one tree on that lot - by the time they were done takin the dirt away - the tree was about 8-12 feet off the ground. It was so odd to see sheer walls of dirt up to the grass hanging over the sides and then this lonely and amazingly interesting tree. The photo op was so freaking amazing - and I missed it by not grabbing the camera and going back. I assume the saved the tree and moved it somewhere else otherwise they would have just removed it before hauling the dirt away.
+ In another odd excavation thing... there's a strip mine along the "back way" to where I work that previously was always behind some hills, never really obvious from the road. They expanded the mine to include a large corn field - and on the edge of that field was a healthy row of sunflowers. In a very similar way to the tree - they hauled all the dirt away and flattened it down several feet so the sunflowers were all on a thin strip of land about 40 feet long by only a few feet. Here again - I didn't come back to take the shot - forgot about it for a few weeks - and when I came back... gone.
Obviously there are a ton of freak moments that you can never recreate - amazing sunsets, someone's expression, etc... the above three were all ones I had a clear shot of having great photos - and missed the boat...
A few of mine:
+ Pulled into my driveway after work and only 10 feet from me as I got out of the car was this immensely tall blue heron... easily up to my chin in height. It just looked at me from that short distance away. I tried to slip into the house to get my camera - but by the time I got back out - it had taken off. Oddly - I live in a city of 22,000 so it picking there to drop down to drink water from our ditch or whatever it was doing was very odd.
+ Some area near us was being excavated - taking the dirt somewhere else - I assume flattening it for a building sometime soon... (progress! cough) - and interestingly there was one tree on that lot - by the time they were done takin the dirt away - the tree was about 8-12 feet off the ground. It was so odd to see sheer walls of dirt up to the grass hanging over the sides and then this lonely and amazingly interesting tree. The photo op was so freaking amazing - and I missed it by not grabbing the camera and going back. I assume the saved the tree and moved it somewhere else otherwise they would have just removed it before hauling the dirt away.
+ In another odd excavation thing... there's a strip mine along the "back way" to where I work that previously was always behind some hills, never really obvious from the road. They expanded the mine to include a large corn field - and on the edge of that field was a healthy row of sunflowers. In a very similar way to the tree - they hauled all the dirt away and flattened it down several feet so the sunflowers were all on a thin strip of land about 40 feet long by only a few feet. Here again - I didn't come back to take the shot - forgot about it for a few weeks - and when I came back... gone.
Obviously there are a ton of freak moments that you can never recreate - amazing sunsets, someone's expression, etc... the above three were all ones I had a clear shot of having great photos - and missed the boat...