Seriously, just stop.  You’re going somewhere – the the store, to a friend’s, to work. You see the light, and it’s beautiful – say, a cold sunny day, but clouds building on the mountains to the east. The clouds pool, like a living mist.  It’s beautiful, you should stop.  But you keep going – it’s cold, you say.  Don’t have the right lens, you say.  You move on.

Too late, you’ve missed your chance.

You come back, on the way home.  You see the same sight.  Only now clouds have moved in, and the view is completely different:

Hospital View

Arguably, this is a better view than before: the burst of color along the mountains, the contrast between the lit foreground and the darker sky. But wouldn’t it be better still to have both views?

I’m sorry to say, I missed my chance. I was skiing.  It was cold.  I didn’t want to stop. I missed capturing the pooling, eddying mists along the mountains.