Missed Opportunity

This "missed opportunity" feeling is something that I am all-too familiar with and that I experience on a extraordinarily regular basis. I carry my camera far less often then I should and am always observing the world around me as it would photograph. Despite how often this happens, there is one instance that stands out in my mind way more than the others, and even now, probably at least two months later, I still have the image in my mind and regret not being able to photograph it.

I keep meaning to work on a photo project called "How I See You", just depicting portraits of people in my life, representing how close to me they are and how I view them. (I use the term "portraits" here loosely) Anyway, I'm shooting the project with a TLR camera which has quite a lot of restrictions and doesn't really allow for me to shoot quickly or stealthily - but in this instance, this didn't really matter because I didn't even have the camera in the first place. I could've ran 15 feet and picked it up, but I knew that a. that the moment would've been missed, and b. considering the circumstances that would have been quite odd. But okay, one morning I was waking up next to my friend and the light was falling in the room perfectly on him and it was the beautiful golden light of that specific, exact time of morning which couldn't be replicated no matter how hard you tried. It was such a calm, innocent moment and would've made a perfect photograph and fit perfectly in with/kickstarted that project, but it was impossible. At least I still have it in my head, but I just wish it could be shared.