I woke early to an overcast morning and decided not to go on my usual morning ride. (Thunder and lightening and all that.) Anyway, I decided to grab my point-and-shoot camera and head out for a walk around the Valley. I took some pictures of the sun as it peaked out from under the cloud cover. As I continued in my loop, I took some shots of some very creepy 'cat-in-the-hat' doll that someone had attached to a sign-post. The obligatory snapshots of a doe with her two daughters were also taken. (I have way too many pictures of deer. They are certainly pests if you have a garden.) Anyway, as I headed to a trail, a woman on a horse rode past me. We said hello, and I resumed walking while looking at the trail in front of me. (Although I have always tended to look down, it's not a bad way to avoid rattlesnakes.)
Glancing up occasionally, I saw her ride up into the rolling hills above the trail. At the crest of the hill she turned off the trail I was on and headed downhill on another. For a moment she was silhouetted against the darkened sky and then was gone below the brow of the hill. Then I thought to myself, 'wow, that would have made a great picture.' The picture that got away. It could have been really cool.
I guess I wasn't thinking like a photographer.
1 comments:
Maybe so, but I still love this photo you took. The sky is just sucking me in....
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