I shot only one photo yesterday.
One photo.
With my iPhone.
Through a car window.
While stopped at a traffic signal.
The point being, good photos are all around us. Even when the light has changed and the person in the car behind me is staring daggers and I haven’t yet framed my photo through the passenger side window while holding the camera/iPhone at arms length and my wife, leaning out of the way, is telling me the light has changed.
OK. It was somewhat dumb luck. That doesn’t mean that while on our way to the mall along the reverse path I didn’t see the possibilities for a photo of someone walking along the plowed path through the park with a treeline silhouetted against a bright sky filled with clouds. I did.
What I couldn’t do was stop and wait for that to happen. We were on a shopping mission and that took precedent over my search for My Final Photo of the day.
The luck was having someone walking the path when we were headed home.
The nearest parking spots are far enough away that by the time I’d stopped, retrieved a camera from the car, walked to the best position, the walker would have been long gone and I would have missed any opportunity for the photo. Any opportunity but for the iPhone in my shirt pocket.
One button push and a slide to unlock. Two quick pushes to open the camera app. One touch to focus and set the exposure. One touch to take the photo. Then accelerate to avoid honking horns. No chance for a second frame.
A quick review after clearing the intersection indicated I had successfully completed a one photo search for the day.
It’s not a great photo. But, as the only one of the day, I’d take it every day.
