ah if only something was different...

Calina

I'm sure we all have moments when we wish that we could have captured a particular moment on sensor.

For me, during the week, driving on M1, sight of a low flying aircraft bathed in sunlight flying straight towards an anvil black cloud over Dublin airport. Even if I'd had the camera, there was no way I'd have been able to stop in time anywhere, never mind on a motorway between M1 and the feeder lanes for the M50 to grab it.

man I'm sorry though.

Anyone else?

AnCatDubh

not motion but beautiful sunrises and sunsets have evaded me (regularly see them but never when i have a camera with me/time to spend at it!) - it will happen for me eventually/law of averages, etc.....

unreggd

Outside my job today

After the mad yoyo rain the sun was comin through trees and the rain was heavy, but soft, looked whopper

Also, loadsa times Ive seen foxes run across the road

ThOnda

Well, I think that sometimes it is even better that some images stay only in your mind as memories. And those memories are so fragile that we should protect them. We do not have that materialistic "can" with conserved moment, with the picture of the occasion, person, feeling.
And yes, every single day is full of photographs I would like to take. Espcially when I am driving!

City-Exile

Last Sunday, when I was just after taking off from DUB, we circled as we climbed to cruising altitude. When I looked back on the airport, I had a birdseye view of a jet coming in to land, casting a perfect shadow in the approach to the runway.

It mightn't sound like much, but with the runway markings, the lights & everything, it looked like a fantastic scene, that now many people get to see.

John

I wished I had my camera with me yesterday when I was looking at cars pretending to be boats in Finglas.

daycent

I was thinking about starting a thread like this recently. One missed opportunity in particular stands out in my head. It was about a month ago in west Cork, really late at night. The moon was really yellow looking and partially obscured behind cloud. Just beneath it was a jet stream (or whatever it's called) from a plane stretching perfectly horizontally across the sky. Just to left of the moon, and the same distance away, was another jet stream facing straight up into the night sky, this time with a plane on the end of it. It's hard to describe, but it was amazing. It looked almost supernatural. Of course, I had no camera with me...

oeb

About 5 years ago, when I was still doing doorwork (Well before I had an intrest in photography), I came home from work one morning (Had a few beers after). It was about 6 am, the sky was amost without cloud and the sun was just coming up.

The sky was criss crossed with about 5 or 6 lines of contrail from jets, and they were highlighted the most vivid shade of red, this was sitting over the still quite dark sky. It was absolutly breathtaking. At the time I tried taking a shot with the camera on my phone, but it turned out ****e.