Visit to Monterey, California
During a one week July visit to Monterey and Carmel, California, scoping out the place to once again return to, I conducted a Sunday night photo workshop that was not only quite successful in image making, but a serendipity event took place during the first hour of getting to know and hearing needs and questions from the students.
Conversation about the previous night’s sunset at Carmel beach and the fact that it is so dog friendly brought up viewing some photos I’d made that very evening, which included people around beach fires, playing Frisbee, and walking with their dogs. From the bordering footpath above the beach I’d taken numerous pics. In several of them a couple and their dog had been walking in my direction. As two of the students, a married couple from Greece, he attending the Naval Post Graduate School, looked at the images on the computer screen they suddenly exclaimed, “That’s us! And our dog!” I went through several photos and in each enlarged them to full size. Sure enough, it was them!
