Finding the silver lining

All these many years later and I still remember something I heard

as a young student of photography ... 

Ansel Adams used to say - and I can't recall his exact words - that whatever you are focusing on,

 turn around, because the best picture might be what is behind you.

I still put those words into practice to this day

and that's what happened with this photo.

Riding the ferry, shooting the landscape from a rain spattered window

on an almost-empty passenger deck ... I turned around in my seat

and saw this sky.

Like I've done many times before, I thanked him and snapped this rear view.

And then I chuckled,

wondering what Ansel would have done with a phone camera.

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You don't make a photograph just with a camera.

You bring to the act of photography

all the pictures you have seen,

the books you have read,

the music you have heard,

the people you have loved.

~ Ansel Adams ~

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Linking with 'Friday Finds' over at Kim's place