Serendipity Dog – Birthday Special

“Serendipity Dog, Varanasi, 2013. Appears in INDIA UNPOSED. 

I was in the holy city of Varanasi, India looking at this wall with an amazing philosophical poem written on it, but the dog was not there. I took a couple of photos and thought to myself, this is okay, but it’s really just a picture of someone else’s art. It needs something in the upper left quadrant to fill out the composition. Maybe a cloud or a bird or something…and I’m not kidding, the instant I had that thought that dog appeared out of nowhere and ran—he didn’t walk, he ran—to the spot I’d hoped something would appear, and he stood there with that expression like, “Well, here I am, take the damn picture!” I got off two frames and he was gone as fast as he came.  Serendipity came and completely freaked me out. I stood there for quite a while, with goosebumps, wondering what had just happened. But now when I look at this photograph, and I ask myself who am I? I think…I’m the luckiest guy in the world.