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RE: Concentration — The HIVE Portrait Photography Competition — Entry #1 for Week #3

This is beautiful, her upturned face, catching the light, mesmerized by the balls. The surreal way the balls seems suspended, as though they would never fall between her hands that way, it feels like a moment of the impossible. The effect is compounded by the pine trees and blue sky, both giving scale, and a feeling that she is juggling as high as the sky. When you are taking photos out in the wild like this, do you ask people before you take any pictures? Do you find most people do or don't want to see them?

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Always an issue. You start to kind of know by their body language if they have anything against being taken photos of and then I don't do it. But if you contact people before the moment you want to capture, you risk spoiling the moment. Philosophically, being there observing already change the moment. But we try to control the damage we do to it and bring it to a minimum.