The One That Got Away!

City-Exile

I'm sure we've all had plenty moments, when we've either been without a camera or felt the use of one would be inappropriate, but saw a perfect photo opportunity.

Here's your chance to recall one of those moments.

I've got plenty but for the sake of this thread, I'm going to stick to the most recent. I got a craving for that Strawberry Cheesecake ice cream, in Burger King, so I nipped in at lunch. This incredibly obese woman, standing at the counter as she made her order, was carrying a Marks & Spencers shopping bag, with "Eat Well" printed on it.

Picture the shot. Huge woman, standing at the counter (with her back to the camera) & looking towards the picture menu boards, with the "Eat Well" bag visible on her left side.

Morlar

Changing cf cards as a shark swam into view in the barrier reef was the most recent. Before that driving through snowdonia v v late for a ferry once, belting through the vallies in the lashings of rain and went over one crest and saw basically a cloud hanging on the top of the mountains and mist rolling down either side of the hills into the valley. It was unreal looking and I still wish I had pulled over and dug the camera out rather than keep driving for the ferry.

City-Exile

I can feel your pain!
Always keep a P&S handy now, in case of moments like that.

viking

City-Exile wrote:

Picture the shot. Huge woman, standing at the counter (with her back to the camera) & looking towards the picture menu boards, with the "Eat Well" bag visible on her left side.

Heh, noticed that "Eat Well" catchphrase a while ago too:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/gareth_p/472391316/in/set-72157600171423105/

helios

Walking down Talbot St and a woman, about 6-7 months pregnant smoking a cigarette... I had my camera with me, but it was in my bag.... crap...

Fionn

on a sat evening not too long ago i heard a motorbike, engine roaring up along the road outside our housing estate then heard a dull thud, grabbed my camera and headed out to the entrance, what greeted me was the ultimate in carnage poor guy died on the spot it wasn't a pleasent scene, he had hit a car and then a boulder at the entrance still don't know why i didn't raise the camera, i reckon it just wasn't appropriate - i'm sure it would have been very saleable maybe it was so close to home or the fact that I had bought a motorbike the day before, i can't really say but i'm glad i didn't take any photographs.
Sometimes you miss good shots other times it's probably better to miss them!

My only other miss is a rainbow that i nearly crashed a jeep for and by the time i got the camera out of the bag it had disappeared, - i'm still searching for a rainbow!

prox

I'm kind of horrified the idea of taking a picture of the poor bastard even crossed your mind, but it put me in mind of a Warhol exhibit I saw recently:

http://www.ago.net/info/ago_exhibitions/exhibition_specific.cfm?ID=3360
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/cronenberg.html