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"I never have taken a picture I've intended.
They're always better or worse"
~Diane Arbus

I don't quite know what to make of this photo. I suppose I should have fired the shutter 2 footsteps earlier. But I didn't. Nevertheless, I like the rhythm of this photo; the background echoing the foreground. The old man in the photo grips his trolley tightly, as tightly as the other man in the background holds his partner's hand. Both men holding on to that which is closest to their hearts; their life, their everything. Perhaps as tightly as I was gripping on to my Leica when it capture this shot. And so, maybe I was right to wait the 2 footsteps, to allow the old man to step out of the frame, and into my reality.