The concept of the “decisive moment” implies that the photographer must be able to anticipate an important moment within the constant flow of life, and capture it in a fraction of a second. Therefore, the key thing about the “decisive moment” is the ability to anticipate.

Ingedients:
Cartier-Bresson 1932 "man jumping over puddle", Saul Leiter 1959 "street scene", add one leaning Lodgepole pine, stir in some red and simmer 45 minutes.

Side note: seriously I would have never composed a photo with all that dark zone area if I didn't study Leiter's work...

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My recent journey through the ABC's of photography is to "maintain a conscious awareness of space, and the articulation of natural space on my picture plane, while avoiding artistic inflection." : Stephen Shore

I also like the aspect of 'forest' here. - - Forest?
Is the tree indeed a lone tree? Or is it in a forest of verticality?
.... and that is how I tried to harness the space.

It was suggested that I print this in B&W, but I never considered it. Monochrome bleeds photos leaving an anemic abstraction of reality. Color brings natural, palpable depth of emotion and psychology.

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Taken the day before the previous 'lone tree' photo when I was out for a therapeutic nature walk with my new (old) Olympus.
I prefer that previous shot because here I feel that I did not encompass any palpable 'space'. Kind of a point and shoot nature shot with minimal creativity....
have a great weekend....

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It's quite amazing how an incidental puncture can change the visual narrative of a picture.

If I were not familiar with the work of Leiter I would have cropped off the bottom 1/4, lost that beautiful zone, and ruined the design of this image. And let me throw on an ingredient by William Klein; "clumsy is what I'm looking for."

handheld while walking at 1/10
Olympus = fantastic 3 point IBIS

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Uncommon urban places
I guess all the color has fallen off the image and is lying in the floor. Leaving the upper portion of this picture in putty and gray pastels.

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