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I believe in the photographer’s magic — the ability to stir the soul with light and shape and colour. To create grand visual moments out of small and simple things…  ~Amyn Nasser

Children dancing…twirling, sashaying, floating.  A blur of movement gently takes her soul by the hand as a glow of light infuses her existence with energy, and shadows hauntingly whisper a summon, “dance with us”.  She is flesh, yet the magic softly clicks, clicks, clicks as though the magician were present in spirit only…body vacated by her dancing soul.  The music ends, body and soul reunite…all the while her human eye never saw.  But her magic did.  One pink toenail.

Please share a link in comments to your out of body photography moment…your one pink toenail shot.  We each have at least one image presumed to be captured by accident.  Me, I believe in magic.  Do you?

Photo and words courtesy of today’s Honorary Sister/Guest Blogger Melody of Slurping Life.

Comments

  2. Thank you Melody for giving us a new perspective on "accidents"! I don’t have many that turn out as lovely as yours, but this one comes to mind. This was taken way back when I guess I didn’t clue in to increase the ISO for low light indoor shots and everything was so blurry!! Drove me crazy, but this first shot still works for me for some strange reason:

    http://www.dolcepics.com/dailypic/mama-focus/

  4. So I’ve discovered that accidents generally turn out to be some of the best-most favourite pictures. That once occasionally you get these really great accidents that excites you to the core, butterflies churning in the stomach. A mini adrenaline rush that makes you want to look at the world from so many different angles-to discover all the other little accidents…

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/edarcy/2510983483/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/edarcy/2444129180/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/edarcy/1975615704/
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/edarcy/1163389504/

  9. I love this post. Everyone’s photos are amazing. I’ll be back later to check out anyone else’s, so add your photos! =)

    Here are a few of mine:

    There’s no other explination for the moment captured by "accident" in this photo but the expressions of the heart between a Mama and her baby boy. The craziest part is that I took it and it is of me and my son. =)
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/28987938@N00/2309472719/in/set-72157603851001638/

    a take off i was not expecting
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/28987938@N00/2477703071/in/set-72157603853030757/

    and an incoming return
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/28987938@N00/2478513592/in/set-72157603853030757/

    and one of my favorite "accidental" moments; when snapping photos of my son’s valentines day party, my sister swooped up her giggling boy and this sweet perfection "just happened"…

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/28987938@N00/2310272668/in/set-72157603851001638/

  15. Thank you all for sharing. I will be intentionally visiting each of your accidents.

    Wishing you a day of smiles. 🙂

  24. Maybe I need to stop deleting my accidents before I really look at them. There could be magic in those shots!

    Thanks for sharing everyone!