Hyde Park Lawn Chairs, London

Excerpt from Not About the F-Stop: When I came upon this scene in Hyde Park in London, it took me a while to catch my breath. It was a wonderful gift so great I imagined it must have been photographed countless times by an endless parade of photographers before me. But I had to do it.  As excited as I was to see it, imagine how crushed I was when it suddenly disappeared. Clouds had covered the Sun. I was in despair until I looked up at the sky and saw that it was just one cloud and it would move out of the way in a few moments. As I waited I thought back to a phrase Garry Winogrand had used to describe this kind of phenomenon. He called it a “color event,” a variation of the concept of the decisive moment. A confluence, however momentary, of the juxtaposition of light and color that changed the very nature of what you’re looking at. When the light re-appeared I worked on this for quite sometime, photographing different aspects of the situations. Long shots, close ups, wide angles, what