They deserve it, and I don’t. I had big aspirations, yet here I am with nothing even though I live so close to so many things that would have worked really well. I had ideas. From framing Neowise with an Anasazi ruin at nearby Wupatki National Monument, which would have been GREAT, to composing an image of the streaking comet flying over the Grand Canyon, which is only an hour-and-a-half away. PERFECT! Alas, nothing.
I have no excuse. I wasn’t too busy. I wasn’t consumed with other things. I was available and paying attention. Only a few nights were ‘skunked’ due to cloud cover, not all.
I suppose that saying I flat out missed Neowise isn’t exactly accurate. I saw it twice, once when I had my camera in tow, but I wasn’t really prepared. I didn’t have a lens selection, didn’t have a read on a composition. Thus, my result was nothing to write home about…