The photographer responds

As you can see here, it’s not always beauty 

That captures a photographer’s eye: 

Sometimes it’s a color, a shape, or a line, 

A shadow, a pattern, or maybe a scrawl 

 Of a word that hints of some song 

That brings back a memory — who knows? 

But as Pasteur said, 

 Chance favors the mind that’s prepared, 

 And so we respond to the moment, trusting 

That whatever the impulse that guides us, 

There’s something that longs — 

 Or deserves — to be seen; 

An opportunity not to be missed.