The Geometry Of Chance

PHOTOSNACK #721

Here is my Sunday thought.

I took this photograph earlier this year in Seoul, South Korea. A simple street scene, nothing dramatic: a parked car, a blank wall, a few scattered shadows. Yet when I looked at it later, something struck me. All these unrelated elements had arranged themselves into an almost deliberate composition. The curved roofline, the scattered circles on the wall, the long vertical shadow of a tree… none of it planned, yet all of it strangely aligned.

Moments like this remind me that the world is constantly composing itself. Geometry happens without intention. Beauty appears without asking for permission. And our job, as photographers—and maybe as people—is just to be awake enough to notice.

Most of what we think of as “creativity” isn’t invention; it’s recognition. It’s meeting coincidence halfway. It’s walking through a perfectly ordinary day and staying open to the small, quiet alignments that suddenly make sense of everything.

The world gives us these arrangements all the time. We only need to stop long enough to see them.

Until next time,
Tomasz