I get the chance to see a lot of lovely sunsets in this part of the world. I find them compelling. Every time. I just catch a glimpse of pink in the sky and I’m up looking out the window for a better look, then, as often as not, picking up my camera and heading out to the bottom of the garden.
Well, the other evening there, I just framed the shot, but as I pressed the camera shutter release I slipped a bit. When I checked the LCD screen at the back of the camera I could see the picture was very, very blurred, but decided to keep it and look more closely once I’d uploaded it onto my computer.
Look what I saw…..!
Well, I know, you could argue this is a mistake. You could argue that I failed to capture the sunset as it “really” was. But I absolutely love it.
See how the red colour pours over the vineyards as if it is a pink fog (there wasn’t any fog there.)!
It’s like a painting….a watercolour with the water seeping over the canvas.
It seems transcendent to me – transcendent in the sense that the boundaries are dissolving. There are no hard edges. No barriers. No limitations. It looks fluid, flowing, dynamic, evolving before my eyes.
I started by thinking I’d made a mistake.
But it turns out I’d made something unique. Something I’d never made before. Something very, very pleasing.
What does that say about “perfection”?
What does that say about “creativity”?
What does that say about “serendipity”?
When I saved the image to my hard drive I started to name it, and, without really stopping to think or consider, I named it “Red shift”.
PS that title takes me right back to 1974 and album by Peter Hammill….The Silent Corner and the Empty Stage
Funny the way the mind works…….
Heroes Not Zombies 
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