I almost had serendipity today. I was taking a picture of a blue heron

[applegrove]

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near my dad's home on an island close to downtown Ottawa. The heron was on my left. Just as I clicked I heard the snowbirds jets flying through the sky in formation to my right. (It is Canada Day) so i quickly clicked on them. The bad news is that my cell phone camera so does not focus that neither the heron or the jets rendered as more than dots in the pictures. What serendipity have you experienced or actually caught on your cell phone?

[jpak]

1. Snapped a photo of my butt

and , no, I will not share.

[applegrove]

2. Thanks for that. I've done that to get a look at a rash or the like.

[jberryhill]

3. I thought I was the only one

I had an injury in a spot that I cannot usually see, and made a similar discovery of the usefulness of a smartphone camera.

This was followed by a narrowly-avoided social media catastrophe.

[applegrove]

4. Oh I made sure to delete.

[jberryhill]

5. Well I wanted to see change over time

Maybe I should make it an animated gif.

[applegrove]

6. LOL!

[Laffy Kat]

7. That's alright. We'll use our imaginations, K?

[jberryhill]

8. I have a time lapse of shingles on my leg if you prefer.

[Laffy Kat]

9. Oh, bummer. That sucks.

I had it on the left side of my head, inner ear, eye, etc. It. Was. Horrible.

[csziggy]

10. This was before cell phone cameras but I took a picture of an injury, too

One rainy night I was going out to check on a pregnant mare and slipped on the stairs. The next day my hip hurt so bad so I went to my doctor and he freaked out, sent me for X-rays. Fortunately my hip wasn't broken, just badly bruised.

I wanted to see why the doctor was so upset about it so I took a photo of my hip. Yeah, it was pretty nasty looking.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

14. Macro lens? Or panoramic?

And thanks for not sharing. I see enough assholes watching White House Press Briefings.

[eppur_se_muova]

11. A regular camera, not a cell phone ...

I posed for a picture on the on-campus farm of Berry College near Rome, GA. As my mom set up the picture, a deer wandered into view behind me and squatted to take a dump. Click.

[applegrove]

12. Ha Ha! I once took a photo of a deer deep in the forest. It was a cheap digital

camera. The color of the leaves on the ground was faunlike. I took the shot and could clearly see the deer. When I went to look at the photo later.... no deer. Nothing but forest.

[blaze]

13. The two pictures I didn't get

but are wonderfully still strong in my memory:

First was on a warm summer morning... pretty light out but next to no traffic... It appeared that Dad (standing in pajama bottoms on the porch) had sent his two young daughters (4 and 5ish) out to retrieve their bikes which had been left in the front yard. They were buck naked and ran out to get them, squealing and laughing with arms flailing..... I was driving and caught Dad's eye just as I turned the corner by their house. We shared a laugh-filled smile and I felt like I had been privy to a special family memory.

The second was just a dad and his daughter riding by on one of those bicycles with the little half-bike trailers attached. It looked like they had just started out on their journey and the smile and look of pure joy on the little girls face was priceless.