The Diptych Project: Inspired by Henri Cartier-Bresson

Top: Ann {USA}
Bottom Evie {UK}:

Given the topic this week, we decided to allow ourselves the freedom of choosing a photo from the archives.
Henri Cartier-Bresson is well known for the concept of the ‘defining moment’. The idea that we can take a photo of something that exists for just a moment, and then disappears. Maybe a facial expression, maybe a special combination of lighting when the light peeps out from the clouds.

Ann on her photo:

I chose this photo because it captures a moment of such joy for this family.  You can see the love shared between them because of how freely they laugh together.

And, yes, I absolutely love Evie’s photo (not that I am biased or anything:)!).

Evie on her photo:

For my photo I chose this one I took last year of Ann and her son, Sammy. I had a bunch of photos as I watched Sammy blowing bubbles and none of them quite worked, then I got this one.

I was positioned in exactly the right place.
I chose the correct settings on the camera to have Sammy and the bubbles in focus.
I caught the moment the bubbles were in just the right place.

Yes I love everything about this photo and is probably one of my favourite all time photos that I have ever taken.

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To see more from Ann, visit her blog at Oh Beauty.

To see more from Evie, visit her blog at Got Passion?