Excerpt from Not About the F-Stop:

When I came upon this scene in Hyde Park in London, it took me a while to catch my breath. It was a wonderful gift so great I imagined it must have been photographed countless times by an endless parade of photographers before me. But I had to do it. 

As excited as I was to see it, imagine how crushed I was when it suddenly disappeared. Clouds had covered the Sun. I was in despair until I looked up at the sky and saw that it was just one cloud and it would move out of the way in a few moments.

As I waited I thought back to a phrase Garry Winogrand had used to describe this kind of phenomenon. He called it a “color event,” a variation of the concept of the decisive moment. A confluence, however momentary, of the juxtaposition of light and color that changed the very nature of what you’re looking at.

When the light re-appeared I worked on this for quite sometime, photographing different aspects of the situations. Long shots, close ups, wide angles, whatever I could think of.

The bizarre thing was that I had never seen anybody else’s photograph of it. Even more bizarre is that I have never seen a photograph of it since then.

Don’t over think things in front of you. If it moves you, shoot it. If its fun, shoot it. If you’ve never seen it before, shoot it.