Missed Opportunities

Not a day goes by where I find myself missing the "perfect shot".  I refer to this instance as the "perfect shot" because it is a moment where the canvas is set and yet my brushes are not at the ready.

This particular instance where I did not have my camera, I was with a group of my friends. We had ventured into the city and went to Times Square.  On this particular night some construction work was being done to the backside of one of the worlds most prestiges street in the world.

It was the usual construction site, about a dozen guys congregated together and only three of them were actually engaged in work activity.  It was not the men working that was particularly interesting nor was it the fact that they were in the heart of the City.

What had really caught my eye was the make shift chimney that had created in order to strain the noodle like smoke from under the street.  That pipe was pumping out so much smoke from out the sewers that you would have thought they were holding a convention for cuban cigar smokers down there.

I would have really taken pleasure in capturing this smoke pillowing out from this pipe.  As it ascended higher into the sky it would pass bilboards that had a mixture of LED lights.  This would make the smoke take on different colors, it reminded me of a tank full of exotic multi colored snakes.

My description does not do this event justice.  Photography is by far my favorite way of depicting a certain event, emotion or action.  On that notion I try to keep my camera at the ready at all times.