This is a picture, not taken, of a flock of birds in flight across the morning sunrise, grouped into three chevron formations, one large, the other two equally small and both situated behind the trailing edges, giving the overall structure the semblance of a binary tree…

This is a picture, not taken, of tiny motes of powdered sugar dancing a Brownian jig in front of my eyes, rising off the thermals from a hot cup of coffee, and reflecting off the morning sunlight streaming obliquely through the window…

This is a picture, not taken, of the morning sunrise seen through the buildings and elevated highways of a metropolis, the stacked layers of differently colored clouds combined with the reddish-yellow spot of the sun, made it seem that I was a resident of some future city in Europa looking at Jupiter looming on the horizon…

This is a picture, not taken, of a particularly intricate older accident scene, the vivid skid marks as instantly recognizable as a body outline, causing me to go into quick forensic analysis, trying to solve the dynamic contortions involved, and mentally judging the figure skating effort…