Take Notice
There’s a fight about destination shooting and reactive shooting. Some photographers distinguish between pictures that are made and pictures that are taken.
All sorts of value judgments are offered in favor of one or the other. I happen to feel no particular bias about either. If you go to a particular place to shoot, it’s still up to you to accept or reject whatever comes into view. That’s also true about the pictures that quite often “happen in front of you.”
On this particular day, I had shot for hours at The Mermaid Parade in Coney Island. I had walked, stalked, searched, and I had stopped walking and waited patiently, at other times, for the pictures to come to me.
Finally, exhausted, I started home. At the pandemonium of the ...
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