There's a famous statement made by an artist that goes something like this, we spend many years learning how to not draw like a child anymore, then we spend the rest of our lives trying to learn how to draw like a child again. Same goes for photography. We learn to put everything important neatly into the frame, to organize the elements to create a subject matter. Sometimes we forget to just let things go out of the frame. I try hard to allow things to go out of my frame and try to snap pictures as it is happening. I get a mixed bag of results doing this, but those few that work, boy it makes the practice worth it. I remember -remembering this as I photographed the Hyatt's walking the railroad tracks recently and though I didn't really accomplish a great frame from allowing my subject to leave my frame, I did like this picture that wouldn't have been made if I didn't think to try to allow her walk right past me and out of what my camera could see. Sometimes its important to not record everything neatly, but to allow the off-set or even missing elements to tell us what the story is, or what the portrait is to be. SayerMotter Photograph by Richard Sayer