Look Ma, No Hands
B&W 2026 11/365
I had a completely different image (which I took yesterday) that I was planning to use for today’s picture. I wrote up a post with a story about landmarks and history. I liked it, and it was ready to publish early this morning.
Only one problem …
Shortly after I hit the publish button I realize/admitted that I really didn’t like the picture very much. So I hit “unpublish” after a couple of minutes. Note: the advantage of still being relatively small is there is a window after you publish something where there’s a very good change nobody has seen it yet. 🙃
Okay, no worries. I figured I would just grab my camera this afternoon, then head out to see what caught my eye.
Then something caught my eye.
It seems that my phone was in camera mode when I put it in its holder, so as I was driving down the road, scene after potentially interesting scene kept presenting itself on the screen … with a rubber duck overseeing the whole thing.
I had my picture idea for the day.
But safety first …
Instead of distracting myself by pressing buttons, I simply said “Okay Google, take a picture” and it started a 3 second count down. I repeated this several times during the course of my drive, and by the time I was almost to my street, I had gotten pretty good at starting the countdown exactly 3 seconds before I reached a scene I might want to capture.
Oh, and if you’re wondering about the duck, it’s a Jeep thing. 😎
Your turn:
What are some “accidental” picture ideas that have just come to you unexpectedly, while you were thinking about a different plan?
Til next time,
Todd
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My PaD for today was similarly ‘unintended’. If I hadn’t accidentally locked Pixel in the vestibule, there would have been a beautifully- and locally-made glass object gracing your screen. I shall save it for another rainy day.
By the way, Pixel will respond to me calling her name by miaowing back if she can’t get to me. How she learned to do this, I don’t know – although she is definitely the most intelligent cat I have ever encountered… – but it made her so much easier to find!
[Seems she’d snuck in there when I went to pile up the paper recycling for tomorrow’s collection; fallen asleep in the box; then woken up in the dark, not quite sure where she was: as the vestibule is at the front of the house, and she’s not allowed outside that way because of the street, so doesn’t usually bother even going in. Goodness knows what enticed her in this time… – probably the box! Cats!]