Expect the Unexpected

I captured this image in New York City near Times Square.  I had taken a bus trip down to the city for the day to view a small portion of the vast amount of art in the city.  The day wasn't a particularly good day for photography.  The sky was heavily overcast and it had been raining on and off throughout my visit.  I rely heavily on the sun as a light source, and was having difficulty finding images without it.  At the end of the day I sat on the bus looking through the few images I had taken unimpressed with the results.  Once the bus started moving it was only a short distance before the bright Applebee's sign caught my eye.  Knowing that I hadn't taken anything I particularly liked, I decided that while it was unlikely that I would produce anything worthwhile through the bus window, that I'd make one last ditch attempt.

That last attempt proved to be completely worthwhile!   In my last post I talked about how you never know where you are going to find a good photograph, and this image follows the same rule.  The difference is that I had almost no expectation that this photograph of a bright New York City street was even going to come out.  With digital photography it costs almost nothing to take an image, so use that to your advantage.  Take pictures of things you don't expect to work.  Most of the time you will be right, but every once in a while you'll be surprised with what you capture.