Stefanie Sweger Photografie | Family, Maternity, Children, and Senior Portrait Photographer | South Central PA, Cumberland County, Perry County, Carlisle, Newville, Shippensburg, Boiling Springs, Mt. Holly, Dillsburg, Mechanicsburg, Camp Hill, Loysville, Blain, Landisburg & New Bloomfield

You all know how I love numbers: numbers in order, numbers repeating, numbers in a pattern. And especially interesting numbers in dates. So I got to wondering just how I would celebrate 12/13/14. The last sequential date of my lifetime. It had to be something memorable.

And then my photographer friend shared Worldwide Moment with me. It’s a website where photographers around the globe can sign up and take a picture at a precise (and noteworthy!) moment in time and post their photos so that everyone can see just what goes on around the world at one particular minute. I knew it would be the perfect way to celebrate. So I got all geared up for the big moment. At precisely 10:16am local time in Carlisle, PA, I would take my picture which would translate to a photograph taken on 12/13/14 at 15:16 GMT. I knew what I was going to do. I had my little correspondence station set up in front of the Christmas tree, started my cup of coffee brewing to include in the picture and as I was setting up the scene and figuring out the lighting, my sweet Beckham decided he wanted in on the moment. There he sat, as happy as anything while I rethought my whole image. I decided to abandon the coffee and go with my new furry prop and waited for my watch to change. As it did, I snapped my long awaited shot just as Beckham decided to yawn. It was absolute perfection beyond anything I could have planned.

So that’s the long explanation for this picture. I was so thrilled with the unexpectedness of the scene and decided that whatever celebration I could have planned to commemorate the moment couldn’t possibly touch what actually happened. Here’s to cats, yawns and numerical perfection!