My attempts to duplicate the rainbow with an art's program and add it to the picture I took of the same area the next day produced mediocre results. I lamented this missed opportunity to grasp the original with a photograph.
Doesn't something similar happen to everyone? Sometimes something precious slips through our fingers that is far more significant and painfully felt than a pretty act of nature that doesn't get captured but is locked in our thoughts. We work through it with art, words, tears and anger sometimes until we come to accept that something was lost. There will never be a rainbow quite like the one that got away but others will get caught.
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Oh Penelope, I so get what you were (and are) feeling. I've come to treasure photographs for that gift of being able to go back and experience special moments over and over again. Then, if I miss a shot (either because I didn't take the camera or was too slow to make the capture), I have to remind myself that I still have the memory in my mind. It seems sad to turn a beautiful moment into a disappointed or aggravated one, so I'm working on that :) The wonderful thing is that your description was so vivid, I feel as though I saw the rainbow too. Have you considered trying to paint or draw it?
ReplyDeleteThere's a special frustration in missing on something unique. When I do it, it remains in my mind as something much more precious than the actual picture would probably have been!
ReplyDeleteThere are times when I missed a shot that I felt was unique. But I had to remind myself that I saw it in person, and that is sometimes better, then seeing it through the lens.
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I know how frustrating that can be but a beautiful shot and description.
ReplyDeleteFrustrating it can be, but I agree with Carver, it's still a beautiful shot and wonderful description!! Have a great week!
ReplyDeleteI saw the most beautiful rainbows when I was travelling through Mount Cook National Park in New Zealand but I was in a coach and just couldn't capture any of them (wrong side of the coach). Your post has just reminded me of them. Without my photos many memories remain hidden.
ReplyDeleteI can certainly imagine the rainbow there! There are many times that I've 'just missed' the shot with my camera, but then I figure that it wasn't meant to be and I hope I get it next time.
ReplyDeleteCreative photography of rainbow ~ (A Creative Harbor) ^_^
ReplyDeleteWe miss an important chance or thing either by mistake or by fate. That could happen. However, I’d like to think that when we are so serious, determined, and ready, we can’t fail mostly after some trials. We wouldn’t obtain a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow, but we can take photos of even the most beautiful rainbow.
ReplyDeleteI know that feeling when I see something that I could capture with the camera and I did not bring it with me.
ReplyDeleteit's frustrating to think the image is captured and then find some setting or timing or focus was wrong.
ReplyDeleteOh, wow. Being without my camera has happened to me too many times to count. I am almost accustomed to the disappointment I feel when it happens, haha.
ReplyDeleteBut your description was awesome; it is a great thing to be able to describe something so well the reader sees it in his mind.
The memory of the beautiful rainbow will stay with you...and with me, as well...xx
Sad to say, I miss many lovely moments. Even when I have my camera, I'm often to slow pressing the shutter.
ReplyDeleteHi Penelope, my first time here. I've always been fascinated by the beady cobwebs in temperate countries! And they are also wide in diameter. That is very different in the tropics, where we don't have frosty mornings. You can see the difference in my previous post. And the lines you used here are so apt for the conditions there, grey and cold!
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