My view tonight upon emerging from the grocery store. I freed myself of an armful of groceries and fumbled about my car for my camera. These sights tend to last seconds instead of minutes and after the smoke of last week, a bright color seemed much like a revelation. Like seeing it for the first time and who knows .... with the way life has been this year, possibly the final time. So there certainly was a need and an urgency to document the moment.
Stunned silence followed along with thoughts of someone far away. Someone beautiful to share the vision with.
No matter how hard you try and how many photos you take, the camera often fails to capture fully what your eyes are seeing and relaying to your mind. I take more and more pictures hoping for the one perfect shot until the moment fades in brilliance, never really satisfied but in a state of desperate awe the entire time. Who knows when .... or if you'll see it again.
Quite possibly there was a more beautiful and stunning image somewhere else but in that moment, for my eyes, there wasn't. This was the ultimate minute in history for the length of its duration. A time to be thankful not to be at work or indoors. A time to be thankful that you remembered to install the cameras memory card after your previous upload .... or download, or whatever it was.
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