the one that got away

As I was wandering Rompot last week, I saw the legs, and quickly snapped a couple frames. I was working my way closer to the truck, hoping that the man inside was asleep and wouldn’t wake up until I got the shot I really wanted. No luck. He sat up as I approached and looked at me quizzically, so we introduced ourselves and Stephen asked him some questions for the story. A missed opportunity. I’ll be sneakier next time.

On this blog and on the other photo blog I have, titled ‘full frame madness,’ I don’t crop the photos if they’re outtakes, or taken on personal time — the title is based on a term used by one of my photo professors. It’s a challenge to myself to use every bit of the frame. The only cropped images are photos I took for work — they’re presented as I turned them in for publication. With that in mind, the photo in this post doesn’t use the frame how I wanted — so here’s a crop of that photo, as I wish it could have been taken.

- liz

~ by Liz Martin on August 19, 2008.