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The air was as crisp as the leaves that crunched below my feet. I weaved between gravestones and the wind whipped up a storm of static in my ears as the leaves shivered against one another. The wind’s cool caress has always evoked an unusual calm in me.
Hypnotized by the wind, I didn’t notice that I’d come up to one of the paved pathways and I stumbled over the edge. I juggled my camera from hand to hand and eventually held onto it long enough to save it from smashing into the asphalt below. As I caught it, though, I hit the shutter by mistake and took a photo.
The photo below is what I found when I developed the film. I couldn’t tell you what other photos I made that day, but this one is forever etched in my memory as my favorite mistake. The tilt, the long shadows, and that one leaf that flew into the shot are all so magical to me.
The photo of the week, above, was made in the same cemetery more than a decade later… it seems like time can blow away so quickly with the wind.
