The Decisive Moment

This is the most illusive moment in photography. The moment that something is about to happen--the moment that everything somehow aligns perfectly together and each element in the photograph stands on its own and portrays its own story.

There are some photographers that were able to catch that moment time and time again... It is an amazing moment to watch. See the kids playing--the three girls in the bottom left and the others in the opposite corner; and then there is the lonely one in the upper right corner.

Look at these two photographs. Those are moments in space-time that an event is about to occur--the "decisive moment". The first one by Kertecz and the second one by Henri Cartier-Bresson. Look at them. Is it luck? How lucky can a photographer be to be able to consistently catch these moments.

I am simply flaberghasted at the proof of the existence of genius and seeing it here at work.