Decisive moment

[cliveh]

I have not seen these contact prints, refer back to my post 25. And yes I should have mentioned a puddle jumper and not the puddle jumper.

 

[Deleted member 88956]

Just a pity that you did not clear this up about 6 weeks ago when you first mentioned 32 shots of the puddle jumper and not a puddle jumper which led me to think that it was the same person

So I take it that you are suggesting it was 32 different people each of whom jumped the puddle and he chose as his decisive moment the man we know as the puddle jumper. Have you seen the contact prints and can you now state that there were 32 shots of different puddle jumpers in the course of the few hours that this scene existed or is this pure speculation on your part.

Thanks

pentaxuser

Not sure we are disecting this. HCB was a photographer who has a number of great images to his credit. Through times he became a street legend and nothing will ever change that.

All the same, he was far from being perfect on majority of shutter clicks. He screened them better than he shot them, can say did his laundry right, and we can all enjoy his work as he chose to show it. Same could be said about most photographers actually, but contrarian in us makes it that much more difficult to accept it.