All too often, I fear, we miss things right under our noses. Rather we don’t see, or choose not to see it is uncertain. But when you do see it, and you realize such, it can bring a smile to your face. Case in point, unwittingly, at some point in the evening I was clearing things from the table to take a picture of kraft dinner (eh?) and with out realizing it set up a comical interplay between a very cool robot L.E.D. lamp I got this Christmas and my telescope.

I had been using the gripper hand to hold a card to block some light (see snoots and gobos) from a previous subject and shoot. But when it got placed under the telescope, it almost looked like he was delivering a message and desperately trying to get the aloof telescope’s attention. When I happened to look up from what I was reading, fittingly enough a photography book, I saw it and chuckled to myself. So of course, I had to photograph it. I call it, “Excuse me sir, I have a message for you.”

It also reminded me of another Saturday morning when I was making breakfast. Just before I plunged the whisk into the bowl to scramble some eggs, I happened to look in to make sure one last time I hadn’t cracked any egg in with them and found them looking back at me. I grabbed the camera, and of course breakfast was delayed by a few moments. I’ve come to think of them as “Happy Eggs.”