Heroes Not Zombies

I stopped to take this photo because I thought the way the sun lit the fountain was beautiful.

It was only once I’d framed the shot that I noticed the woman standing by the tree.

After taking the photo I sat on a park bench for a while gazing at the glistening water and I noticed that the woman stood there unmoving for a long, long time. She was alone, not checking a phone, not looking around, not wandering about. She was just entranced, enchanted, zoned out into a special place.

So there’s a mood which goes with this image. A mood of calm, ease, contentment and probably amazement. It takes the presence of the sunlight, the water, the autumn leaves, and the human being, altogether to create these feelings.

There is an enchantment which emerges when we let ourselves be absorbed by the wonder and the beauty of this world.