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In this dream, the photo mode was on portrait, which I didn't want. So I switched it to photo mode and tried to zoom to about 1.2x. But the camera kept zooming into 5x, then 10x. Too close!
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Yesterday I had a vivid dream. I was out in the city, a mishmash of that famous bridge view in Dumbo, Brooklyn an Columbus street-maybe in San Francisco facing the TransAmerica building but colliding and smushed together.
Anyways, there I was. And I saw incredible shafts of light cutting through the skyscrapers and canyons of this magical San Francisco-New York place. And it was - in my head I knew absolutely sure - an incredible moment to capture oh camera and could be in one of my top five shots. The city was blueish gray but the light was pale yellow, all earnest and hazy in the early morning. It was just perfect.
Somehow I shouted to Alexei, who always has his SLR on hand to look up (we were doing one of our photo walkabout in Chinatown) to catch the light before it changes. He scrambled off to the side to get off a couple of good shots.
I held my phone up (where was my Leica?) and fuddled with the settings.
In this dream, the photo mode was on portrait, which I didn't want. So I switched it to photo mode and tried to zoom to about 1.2x. But the camera kept zooming into 5x, then 10x. Too close! I kept fat thumbing the settings as the rays faded. The sun rose up and the shadows wilted. And still I couldn't get the camera to work. And the image was lost.
I hoped Alexei captured some. I saw him on the side streets snapping away.
Am I losing the forest for the trees?
Lots of decisions happening now - about what to do with life, with careers, with family. The world is changing so much, and here we are, turning knobs and levers on our existing plan, contorting it to a new reality. Perhaps we need a new plan.