What Photography is to Me

How the seeing, the being in the moment, is what most thrills me.

For the first time in a year, I saw the whole fame yesterday, all of the edges as well as the corners. I saw the shapes and the shadows shift across the rectangle, blocking the light in some spaces, permitting more in others. My left thumb and index finger held the focus ring of the stubby German lens, nudging it left or right, following the big guy…