But also the setting...

"This is why I love the wide-angle lens. Amateur photographers usually love telephoto lenses because they try to isolate scenarios. I prefer the wide-angle lens because I not only want to show the action, but also the setting. After all, I'm not interested in artistic photographs. I'm interested in documentation." --Gianni Berengo Gardin.

Felice put me onto this Italian photographer, and I am very grateful to her. He has produced over 200 photo books, and my library has only one, and the title is his name. I'm loving every molecule of this book because I see he does much the same thing Vivian Maier does, which I also want to do, which is love the object in front of the lens, love it in its context, in its moment, in a moment that has never been before and will never be again.

This woman is walking into her long shadow in a moment of pouring rain (you can see the dots of rain against the man's dark clothing), with the sunlight haloing her hair and making stars and gleaming wet dapples all around her. She is full of her thoughts, she is unaware of my little camera, she is beautiful in this moment. I am loving her, and the press of my finger on the shutter button is the act of love. I am loving the setting, which happens to be NW Thurman Street, the street Ursula LeGuin documented in words and her friend in pictures. That same street. This moment.