I'm old enough that it's questionable I'll be around in 21 years for the next one in the U.S.. Only my middle daughter has not yet seen one (wife and the other two daughters are good). If I am lucky I'll be alive to join her for it.
I have to say, bit off topic, I'm fairly pissed off that I didn't get "my Halley's comet". Or rather, I got it, but it was crap. I suppose I could live to be 97.... (I am not sure if Mark Twain was lucky or unlucky with regard to Halley's.)
Anyway, Hale-Bopp was a treat, I have to confess. I suppose I am fortunate for that.
Glad you got to experience it with many of your loved ones!
I told myself going in I wasn’t going to get destructed taking pictures. I decided to only bring my phone, with the thought being that other people would take and share much better pictures than I could ever get.
However, in the moment I still reached for my phone and took some shots. About halfway through I had this, “what the hell are you doing, stop taking pictures as enjoy this” thought. So I just marveled at the last half.
I’m glad I was able to check it off my bucket list, but hope it’s not the last one I see.
Yet this is an example of something that required foresight and planning- and just a bit of serendipity. It’s a great image.
I’ve had some trouble illustrating the difference between these two concepts for people not in the profession. Yet my professional success has been entirely based upon the latter. However even with all the planning and preproduction work, most of my success has relied on serendipity to a degree. Sometimes this results in failure because this last little ingredient never happened.
