The Walker

The Walker

Henri Cartier Bresson was renown for his book "The Decisive Moment". He states "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,"

This image was one of my Decisive Moments". I had been shooting at Belmore Basin in Wollongong for a photography class project all afternoon, I was walking along the path above the beach and I looked to my right and spotted this walker, back lit, reflections, receding water, silhouetted, I slammed the camera to my eye and shot. When I developed the negative my instructor jumped on it when reviewing my contact sheet with me, but for some reason I never printed it. It was four years later I scanned the neg and discovered the light and the receding water had literally mirrored the walker. Thanks Henri.