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| Look closely London, ON February 2025 This photo originally shared on Instagram |
Those plans were simple: shoot the sunset. So I scanned the skies from the house, and decided things looked promising enough to walk over to the nearby park with my camera.
Unfortunately, the clouds rolled in in the 5 minutes it took to get there, and I was greeted by a perfectly grey sky from edge to edge.
Normally I’d wait it out for a bit, because sometimes the clouds shift and the post-twilight sky will put on a surprise reflective light show. But not this time.
So I bailed without having even taken the camera out of its bag. Walked home through the post-blizzard streets and slowly ambled past our snow-covered car in the driveway.
Figuring I shouldn’t waste the opportunity, I decided to clean the snow before it froze into an impenetrable shield.
And that’s when I noticed the streams of ice that trailed down the sides of the car, frozen remnants of a brief burst of sunshine earlier that afternoon.
Before long, I found myself shooting artsy compositions of the weird ice formations against the reflective red paint. I didn’t have much time amid the fading light, but it was enough.
In the end this isn’t the photo I set out to capture. And I snagged it only because of an unpredictable chain of circumstances that started with an uncooperative sky.
Maybe it’s a lesson from the universe that we aren’t in charge. Or that tangents are to be embraced and not feared.
Let’s go with that last one, then. It might come in handy in the not-too-distant future.
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