See something cool? Not sure what it is? Shoot first, figure it out later.
IT’S ENTIRELY POSSIBLE that this particular light display happens frequently in a particular Mission Viejo, California, house. It’s also very likely it attracts no attention.But on a certain April day in 2016, G. Dan Mitchell was in the house, and that made all the difference.
Mitchell and his wife were visiting their daughter and son-in-law. The family was in the living room when he noticed that the light hitting the patio door was putting on a colorful show. “With a camera in my hand, I start to see differently,” Mitchell writes at this image’s Flickr page, “and things that would otherwise often escape my notice start to catch my attention…”
This story is from the September 2017 edition of Shutterbug.
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