Serendipity Me This. Please And Thank You.

Sometimes I’ll take the serendipitous moments over the marked and measured.

I try to make a photo of this patio at least once a month at various times of the day. Today was a sunset. I’d moved into the perfect position for the patio lights against the shadowed building exterior with the sun hidden by the roofline.

Made a few frames with the 50mm f1.4 tilt-shift lens but wasn’t happy with the results. I was going for effect and all I was getting was a technically perfect tilt-shift photo without a story.

Someone driving past honked at me and yelled. I turned, pulled the camera away from my face, tossed my head back in acknowledgment, and waved.

I must have shifted my feet during the turn to wave. When I put the camera back to my eye, this is what I saw. At first I wasn’t pleased with the prismed arc of flared light. Then I surrendered to what I didn’t expect and made a few more frames selecting this one as the best of a serendipitous moment.

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