Missed Opportunity

There are times when I wonder if I see the world through a viewfinder. I've always had a knack for composition, and I love noticing something small that eventually works it's way into an entire frame of a photograph. Sometimes, the things I want to capture are hardly noticeable, and that's what makes them stand out a little more to me. I like details, and I hate missing little things. Especially when my camera is on Long Island, and I'm in the subway.
I go into the city every weekend for my internship with a men's clothing company. I take the same subway trains every time, and I'm generally less than enthralled by my surroundings. While I almost always have my camera with me, mostly out of habit and paranoia that I'll miss something, one weekend about two months ago, I left it behind. Of course, this was the weekend I decided to take a different subway route, which dropped me into a different station. The Times Square subway station that branches off onto almost every subway line, and that has pillars. These pillars are chrome plated, and when the fluorescent light hits them just right, they gleam. As I climbed the stairs onto the main platform of the underground subway station, these pillars, soldiers of Manhattan, looked almost like trees in metallic forest, and from my lower vantage point, created a unique perspective on objects that were passed without a second glance by thousands of people every day. I kicked myself all the way to Grand Central.
I know that particular image would have been wonderful. I know the reflections and the blur of the passing commuters would have added an eery motion to an otherwise rooted photograph. I worry that I'll never find that particular angle again, and even though I know exactly where I stood, and where I was looking, I don't know if I'll ever find that particular moment in order to put it on film or digitally record it. I hope I do though, because I know that would have been a fantastic photo.