Lucky 777

Yesterday I suddenly noticed that today would become my 777th journal entry and despite it's not an official milestone, I did want to do something with these 'lucky numbers'.

At first I wanted to shoot the calorie counter indicating 777 calories burnt and my selfie reflection during my daily cross training excersize, but the iPhone shot turned out way too grainy :-(
So I had to come up with something else...

A Boeing 777? After all I'm close to the airport... but... eh no

Eureka.... The Slot machine in the Casino!!!

I had it all planned. A tripod and my Nikon in the casino and take a few shots of 7's passing the win line and comp it into the desired shot later. Easy!

Enthusiastic I left home for the casino, but when I arrived I was more than welcome,...
But my camera wasn't. Despite my explanation the company policy prevailed :-(

What now? It's late and I really wanted this shot as marker on my journal?

As I kind of made it a tradition to do complicated comps on special occasions I decided to - once again - do the trick with partly sampled material making this entry way more difficult than I anticipated. See nr 499 (before) and nr 500 (after) as a reference of complicated :-)) Maybe nice to point out that the numbers 500 were already visible in shot 499 ;-) Oh, I love little subtile extra's

The 777 Challange... todays original shot only had ONE figure 7 in it, all the rest is magic even the reflections ;-))