Henri Cartier - Bresson talked about how photography is intuitive and a split second that a picture presents itself--if you miss it--you miss it. Cartier-Bresson is one of my go to people when I want to look at great photography. I can look at his pictures over and over again. Thats a remarkable thing. To create images you can go back to many times and still find enjoyment and more importantly see something new in it--and learn. Its like good music--the more you listen--the more you hear the great stuff in the background. It is that instant when a picture is a picture that intrigues me. Someone called it the decisive moment based on a translation of Cartier-Bresson's words. And we use this all the time when we talk and teach about photography. But its when everything comes together in an instant of time--the subjects do and the photographer captures in a pattern or composition that will engage the viewer. Its brilliant really. This idea is what made photography no longer dependent on the art world for acceptance. It was this notion that made photography its own thing. We can argue that it is equal or superior or( for the neophytes of the world) lesser than painting and sculpture--- in any event it is its own thing and has its very important place in the history of image making. And its this idea of the moment that really still, after 28 years of doing this that keeps getting me very excited about making photographs. Posed portraits are fine, and they have their own challenges and can be exciting, but its the capturing of a fleeting a moment that really really really should be what people want to display in their homes. When I took this picture I heard the children's mom say--oh that was cute the way she looked up at him---I agreed and was very happy that I captured it. SayerMotter Photograph by Richard Sayer.