The second half of life..

By twigs

When bad things go good!!

The story....

Late afternoon appointment in town. Driving home along waterfront at rush hour (lol! marginally slower 20 minutes!). Sun going down over bay - beginning to look very promising for a good sunset shot.

Choice - sit in traffic and crawl for a couple of kms or park for 20 minutes and take walk along waterfront with camera to see what sun does. No brainer - park 'n' walk wins hands down.

Adjust camera settings to cope with shooting into sun. Shots not looking so inspiring afterall......

...then.....

...this wee shag/cormorant comes paddling along right below me. Quickly adjust my position so I can get some of the sun's rays on him but forget to adjust camera settings.

Shag dives down into water then emerges a few metres further on and snap........just as he pops to the surface and shakes his head to clear the water. And all of this captured on a (I thought!) w-a-y too slow shutter speed!

Looking at it now though I feel it was a lovely mistake to make! Kind of gives a new meaning to having a 'brain explosion' doesn't it?

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