There are days when I actually leave my camera at home. It doesn't happen often but when it does, on the rare occasion, I find myself in one of those situations where I'm frustrated that I don't have my glass with me. This happened the other afternoon when I had to drive out to Long Island for an appointment. I was getting in my car parked on the street outside my building, driving for 40 minutes, parking the car, getting back in the car and driving back to the city, and, hopefully finding another space on my block. Everything went as planned except that I didn't have my camera when I came upon this photograph as I was about to get back in my car.
It was the Wednesday before Thanksgiving and I could hear the cars stuck in traffic on the road on the other side of the high fence. It was really cold out but I was standing there without my coat because I have never been able to drive with it on. The lot was almost completely empty and full of puddles. There was something poetic about the concrete on this awful afternoon in the middle-of-nowhere-ville suburbia. It was just me and the wind and those bare winter trees.
I had only one choice...I took out my blackberry and snapped. Sometimes the type of camera really doesn't matter.
9 Comments:
Why do you take the best pictures! ...love it.
jeez.. i thought you were going to say you went back home to grab your camera to take that beautiful picture! the picture is just absolutely gorgeous, it doesn't require a fancy camera, it requires the perfect picture taker. :)
Great picture and I absolutely love your description of suburbia. That's totally how I feel whenever I am out of the city (but can't admit it to a ton of people).
I also think this is a lovely picture! (You take the most amazing puddle pictures. I don't know how you do it!)
You are such an inspiration!! I am so glad I found your wonderful eye for everything. :)))
This is gorgeous! So gorgeous ;)
Are you KIDDING me, you took this with your Blackberry? Monica, and I mean this sincerely, this is one of the best photos I've seen in a long time. I can't exactly explain why, I just know I love it. It's like...how do I put this... the calm reflection of a lake, only a suburban lake, cause it's a puddle in a spot of granite...an oasis in the land known as the dirty Jers. (Oh, you know I had to get that in there!) Seriously though, unreal.
friends, thank you!!
Yes, I did indeed capture this beautiful and unexpected scene with my blackberry. I also posted it to my mobile photos album on facebook.
thank you so much for all your kind words! :)
absolutely amazing! seriously. i adore the puddles. and i know that feeling of frustration...
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