I have never read such honesty come out of a photographer’s – or any artist’s – mouth (or keyboard). I have experienced the feeling of the fluke over and over again. My first fluke was the first photo (with an non-point and shoot camera) of a person. The biggest fluke of my life as a photographer happened that same day with the third person I ever shot. It is probably my best photo ever in terms of the “aha” feeling one gets or one doesn’t get in the moment of seeing it. I still gaze at that beautiful photo and wonder, after 2 hours of photography instruction, setting up my own lights, shooting in jpeg because I didn’t know any better, one piece of beautiful blue cloth and a model who is best known for her pay website, but, who matched my heart in that moment of gazing toward the heavens, we created magic. It was a fluke, it was a gift from Spirit, it came out of me and her and, yet, I understand none of it at the same time. What it did do, though, was let me know that I would have more good flukes. Good luck? Knowing how to conjure light to my bidding? The ability to mesmerize a model? I don’t know. But, I can say that I was shockingly surprised when I saw the final result and had to catch my breath. Not at what I did, but, what the Universe allowed, in my presence. Thank you, Universe, for flukes. They make me happy and they keep me wondering.

Cheers to you, Miss Aniela, for your amazing flukes and for your ability and desire to put the truth (as much as it can be known and as relative as it is) into words.

Holly Gordon