Monday, April 14, 2008

Unphotographable

There's a guy named Michael David Murphy who started a blog called "Unphotographable: A Text Account of Pictures Missed." As he writes:

Unphotographable is a catalog of exceptional mistakes. Photos never taken that weren't meant to be forgotten. Opportunities missed. Simple failures. Occasions when I wished I'd taken the picture, or not forgotten the camera, or had been brave enough to click the shutter.

So, just now I was compelled to write my own:

This is a picture I did not take of the most summery sky Aurora has seen for a long while, colored by a beautiful gradient of dark blue on top to a light sky blue as it reached the horizon and dotted by light and fluffy clouds placed perfectly all around. Although the sunlight was too bright for this to be seen, it all came into focus just as soon as I put on my sunglasses.

This is one of those occasions I wish there were a non-awkward way to carry around my camera and a tripod all the time. Okay, back to my Nokk paper...

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