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WPC: Shine! Sunny Sunshiny Day!

tomb of eagles moundWe just got back from a lovely trip to Scotland, and while I have hundreds of pictures that might fit this week’s challenge, shine, I picked this one because of the lens flare.

When folks heard we were headed to the Orkney Islands and then Skye, we got some sympathetic looks, like, gee, hope the weather holds out. Boy, did it! We had such beautiful sunshine through the trip north that I just started to embrace the lens flares rather than try to work around it.

This picture is from one of my favorite days when we hiked up to see the Tomb of the Eagles. It was a glorious day best expressed with the warmth of the sun. I don’t think it ruined the picture at all. It certainly made the day.

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funny what a picture makes me think

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I have no words to put here these days, a pretty lousy condition for a blogger, so I thought I’d share a picture that I took in Kansas City. It’s the World War I Memorial, a pretty imposing structure. I took a walk there one afternoon, enjoying the crisp fall weather and the sunny day coming to an end. I was carrying my camera in the pocket of my hoodie and while I tried to keep the lens clean, it was obviously full of lint or fine dust from the pocket and it made all kinds of flares and messes in the shot.

Here’s the thing, though. I like it. It might have been a nice clean shot, something that reminded me of the monolith shot in 2001: A Space Odyssey. Instead, I got this. I don’t know what this is, but I like it. Silhouette not quite black. Light bursting through. Dirt obscuring the brilliance of the scene.

It makes me think of life. Not always a clean sharp picture. Not always the shot you’d like to frame. And yet, it holds a unique and singular beauty.

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