She asked me, ” Why are you stopping here?”  I simply said, ” I like this scene ” I didn’t know why but something drew me in and there was no time to analyze it, just react and glad I did. It wasn’t that I ignored her but taking the time to explain it all, including the time to ask myself why I did stop, would have made me missed a magic moment, the kind that helps to define a photographer’s luck.

It was an overcast, gloomy day, not too unusual for this part of France, but several frames in, it was as though someone back stage turned on the lights and just for a brief moment, this scene came to life and revealed itself .

Later, with a little help in post to enhance it further , my wife saw this image, and said she didn’t see that. I wouldn’t have seen it either had I not stopped but something about it drew me in.

We all have an inner voice that we should trust. Time and experience can make that voice shout and we should listen without trying to figure out what it’s saying. Acting on it doesn’t need explaining, just action.

They say that chance favors the prepared but I think that the prepared has to take the chance first.

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