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Even for Savannah in July, it was hot. However ac- passed forever. I had changed in that moment and so
customed I am to dressing in black regardless of the had my experience of the chair alone and neglected
weather, I found myself wishing it were cooler. My under the portico.
shirt was stuck to the length of my back and my cargo I suppose that is the point. In the handful of seconds
pants made my feel as though my legs had sudden- it took me to cross from the square to the place where
ly swollen. As we crossed the square, I saw an old this photo was created, I never stopped to think. I nev-
wrought iron chair under the shadows caste by the er stepped out of the moment to think about how I
second floor balcony. Framing the chair by the re- would set the camera. Instinctively, I knew what I felt
mains of old wooden molding on one side and a fresh- and while I remained in the moment, I let th left side
ly painted stucco wall on the extreme, I got down on of my brain worry about the camera.........
one knee, adjusted my F-stop to give me the depth of
field that would capture my experience of that chair We can analyze this image all we want. Yes, the cir-
and then pressed the shutter.......... cle of confusion serves to heighten the emotion of
the moment. Yes, the tension between the indefinite
From the moment I saw the chair I had engage in its whiteness of the stucco wall and the sharp texture of
presence and I knew what I was feeling. I knew what the chair create a visual tension. But all those things
I wanted the camera to experience, and I had opened serve only to let the moment speak, to disclose to the
myself to the possibility that no one other than me world what I felt. How I saw the world again. For the
would feel what I felt at that moment. first time.
A single click of the shutter and the moment had

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