Henri Cartier-Bresson, 1957:
Photography is not like painting. There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative.
Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever.
I’m learning things piecewise, the way I always do. I never even knew the name before today.
And I agree, absolutely.
The number of shots I’ve missed because I saw something, thought it was amazing, and reached for the camera just a moment too late…
Well, you don’t agonise over them, because you never know when the next one will come.
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