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Intermezzo: a Pity? A Serendipity!

Posted by Illuci (Hurdegaryp, Netherlands) on 20 January 2008 in Abstract & Conceptual and Portfolio.

GENERAL CALL FOR SERENDIPITIES

A serendipity is an unexpected result of a search for something you want to obtain(*).

You start with an image in mind of what you will get on your picture. Sometimes it's above expectation and you cry : "awesome!". Sometimes it's below expectation and you are disappointed. But incidentally it occurs that it's totally not what you had in mind, but it appears to be another kind of picture, but quite useful! Because:
1. it contains an interesting element you overlooked while shooting the pic. Or,
2. as in this case, when it appears to be an interesting abstract picture. I wanted to shoot a picture of the view from the bus during night, the shutter was open and the bus started, oh what a pity! I thought.
3. you accidentally chose the wrong shutter time, white balance or DOF, and it's too late to restore, but afterwards the wrong settings appeared as good as, or even better than with the "right" settings.

Read more about serendipity in photography, science and cooking on my textblog.

(*) This is not the complete definition of serendipity, scholars and scientist would criticise it because it lacks the element of "anomaly", but it comes very close to it.

DO YOU ALSO HAVE SERENDIPITIES YOU WANT TO SHOW? PLEASE POST THEM ON FEBRUARY, 9-10. THANK YOU, AND PLEASE BE SO KIND ALSO TO ENCOURAGE OTHERS TO POST THEIR SERENDIPITIES.

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