Tonight, as soon as "Desperate Housewives" was over, my husband asked me to run to Culver's for him and get him a hamburger. As I pulled out of my driveway, I was struck by how crisp and clear and big and bright the moon was in the east, and wished I was out there with my camera. Then, as I got to the end of the street, I looked left (east), and there down the hill about a mile away by the railroad tracks was this HUGE plume of smoke, several acres wide, and in the few seconds I sat there and watched, the glow in the sky above the spot got bright orange. I could see flashing emergency vehicle lights on the street, and through the trees I could see flames, which seemed to be along the ground. A train was coming through just a few hundred yards to the south of the flames.
I drove back to the house and grabbed my camera and tripod, but by the time I got back to my spot the orange glow had lessened, and then I realized I had the wrong lens. So I ran back to the house again, grabbed my 75-300, but when I got back, the orange was gone, replaced by just some white smoke.
If only I had had my camera set up when I first saw the shot! I could have had a wonderful shot of a huge orange fiery glow in the night blackness, with the piercing white light of a train cutting through the smoke, and a huge crisp full moon above.
Well, chances are I wouldn't have exposed it right to get all that the way I imagined it, but I like to imagine that I would have.
Do you have any "shots that got away" this week?