Being in the moment
July 2, 2009
Ok so this is a post about the shot that got away. I guess in a way it also says something about being a photographer and being in the moment.
On the way to a seminar with my fiancée when the taxi driver chooses to stop on the railway tracks what a train approaches from about 200 metres away.
I don’t remember being in a panic but wondering if the train was stopped or moving. I then experienced the requisite mental images of post train impact and then it ocurred to me. Get a photo you fool. Unfortunately by the time I got the iPhone out and ready to take the shot we had moved off the tracks. “Damn!” I thought. Well more like damn spelt with an F actually.
I then realized that this was where film cameras have it all over digitals because assuming the film is wound on, you can take the shot immediately. In other words a point and shoot film camera is always ready–so to speak.
But then again so is a good photographer 
Postscript: railway crossing on question sans train
