Sometimes photographers take an image of a subject and they later find out that the image really is about an originally unseen different subject. For example, yesterday we were in Blue Hill while it was snowing, and I was doing a some snowfall shooting from the parked car. Then, Barbara said, “Did you see that Christmas ball over there?” This red Christmas ornament that you see here was hanging alone in a roadside spruce, perhaps overlooked when the decorations came down:
I hadn’t noticed the ornament, but I took three quick shots of it at different shutter speeds (to make sure I captured some falling flakes) and we drove off without further ado. When we got home and I began to edit the day’s snow images, I discovered the wonderful winter landscape scene that was reflected on the ball – an intriguing image within the intended image:
Sometimes Barbara makes me seem brilliant. (Images taken in Blue Hill, Maine, on January 24, 2024.)