Alexander Fleming is told to have left a petri dish with bacteral culture on his lab bench for few days which in meanwhile got contaminated with the funge species Penicillium notatum. When he took a look at it he realised that there where no bacterial growth in certain radius from the fungal colonies. In stead of throwing the dishes away like most would porbaly would have done he took a closer look and ended by discover one of the most widely used antibiotic of our times.
Some say that there is no such thing as accidental discovery. You just have to be ready to receive the message when they come and not dismiss things that comes out other way than you expected.
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The title validates the photo, I'm not sure the image does (Unless that is penicillin in the background?) I think more emphasis should have been on the petri (?) dish.
I think it was bread mould not fruit mould? petri dish not obvious enough. books too flat..I like those text book pics where paper disks have been impregnated with various antibiotics and they are placed on petri dishes of growing bacteria...you see bacterial death spreading out from the disk
I think your concept is very interesting (about Fleming's discovery) but I would like to see the lemon more in focus than the other items in the foreground. Also, I think more items that would suggest a lab would help. I do like the background color though, I like how it contrasts the yellow and blue of the fruit.
Third visit's the charm, I guess. I'm guessing that you left the moldy whatever out of focus on purpose to show that it's discovery was "by accident". So if that's true, then the photo tells the story correctly. I've scored it with that assumption. Technically, though, they didn't have hardcover textbooks, college ruled paper, or #2 yellow pencils in the days when penicillin was discovered - so this photo is anachonistic.
Petri dish needs to be more "present" (IMHO). Depth of field seems to attempt this but I don't think it pulls it off. Nice concept for the definition of "serendipity"
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