Missed photo opportunity
by c-mama
I love photos. I often surf Flickr and just let my eyes drink in the beauty of some of the photos there.
I try taking my own, but I’m no photographer. It’s ok. I take the photos for me, not anyone else. But yesterday I missed a photo opportunity due to my emotions getting the best of me.
I was leaving Sam’s Club after doing the bulk of my grocery shopping. I had a package of strawberries on top of the package of paper towels on the hand cart. As I pushed the cart down the slope from the sidewalk to the road, the strawberries fell off and spilled onto the ground. I was so sad about losing those strawberries that I just started picking them up off the ground and putting them back in their container so I could throw them away. As I finished I realized that I missed an opportunity. It really would have made for a nice photo.
I think I’ll take more time to look for those opportunities and not let my emotions get in the way.
I had the same thing happen when a very loved blue bowl fell to the floor in the kitchen. After the person who broke the bowl swept the shards up I asked if we could scatter them again so I could take a picture. It was a beautiful cobalt blue bowl and would have looked really cool, just like the strawberries sprawled across the ground. (we did not re-scatter the glass)