I think that's the strength of photography - to decide the decisive moment, to click in the moment to come up with a picture that never comes back again.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Photography to me is catching a moment which is passing, and which is true.
In the world of photography, you get to share a captured moment with other people.
With photography, you zero in; you put a lot of energy into short moments, and then you go on to the next thing.
A photograph is a moment - when you press the button, it will never come back.
With photography, you've captured a moment time - it's that moment only - and in painting, you play with it; you manipulate how time is presented. It's about fantasy and illusion and the creation of desire.
To photograph is to hold one's breath, when all faculties converge to capture fleeting reality. It's at that precise moment that mastering an image becomes a great physical and intellectual joy.
As I have practiced it, photography produces pleasure by simplicity. I see something special and show it to the camera. A picture is produced. The moment is held until someone sees it. Then it is theirs.
To me, photography is the simultaneous recognition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event.
It is always the instantaneous reaction to oneself that produces a photograph.
Sometimes they are a matter of luck; the photographer could not expect or hope for them. Sometimes they are a matter of patience, waiting for an effect to be repeated that he has seen and lost or for one that he anticipates.