Decisive moment? Vol.1

Those who know something about photography may know the term "decisive moment".  Many think that it is this special moment that is captured and gives the photo its meaning.

The photographic master Henri Cartier-Bresson made some critical observations about photography, translated as “the decisive moment” which is often (incorrectly) characterized as: “capturing an event that is ephemeral and spontaneous, where the image represents the essence of the event itself.”

This is how decisive moment is described: "If a photograph is to communicate its subject in all its intensity, the relationship of the form must be rigorously established. Photography implies the recognition of a rhythm in the world of real things. What the eye does is to find and focus on the particular subject within the mass of reality… In a photograph, the composition is the result of a simultaneous coalition, the organic coordination of elements seen by the eye. One does not add composition as though it were an afterthought superimposed on the basic subject material since it is impossible to separate content from form.

The composition must have its own inevitability about it.

But inside movement, there is one moment at which the elements in motion are in balance. Photography must seize upon this moment and hold immobile the equilibrium of it."

Source: PixelPost

I chose the misunderstood version of the decisive moment, so this week's photos are about capturing the decisive moment.