Almost Wordless Wednesday:Passion

Sometimes i can be easily discouraged from doing something.  But not when i'm passionate about the thing.

i wanted to capture the amazing fumerole
AND read the words on the sign.
It didn't look possible, but i tried anyway.

Can you read it?
You may need to click  on the photo to enlarge.
Ask for what you want anyway, even when "the rules"  say don't.

i guess i've always been this way.

Swiss-Italian Border, 1976
shot with Kodak Instamatic 

This is the shot my friends said
 would be a waste of film:
The reflection of the above view,
 from a plate glass window.

Of course, you don't always come up winners.  The Europe scrapbook has a piece of pattern paper to show the shot i attempted from the top of the Empire State Building.  At night.  But you can't get what you need if you don't try..  .