Motivation Monday - Henri Cartier-Bresson

"The photograph itself doesn't interest me. I want only to capture a minute part of reality." - Henri Cartier-Bresson.
Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004) was a French photographer considered to be the father of modern photojournalism. He was one of the main contributors to the creation of street photography, which is my preferred method of (candid) portraiture. He switched from painting to photography around 1930 after being inspired by a random photograph captured by a Hungarian photojournalist in Africa.
In 1952, Cartier-Bresson published his book "The Decisive Moment". Within the book he stated, "There is nothing in this world that does not have a decisive moment", and applied it to his photography. The Decisive Moment is now a term for images like the ones included in this post that capture a brief moment in time in which you feel as if you can picture what is next to come. According to Cartier-Bresson, "the decisive moment, it is the simultaneous recoginition, in a fraction of a second, of the significance of an event as well as the precise organization of forms which gives that event its proper expression"

I am always trying to get photos that would fit into the category of the decisive moment. It takes a great deal of skill to do this as you need to have your camera ready to go at a moments notice. You have to be able to adjust the shutter, aperture and focus as required very quickly. Sometimes I can get lucky though.