Not really. I shot as I got off the train. I had a 20mm on my F80. As I got off, a guy walked past me with a big bag of little oranges that he was cradling like his grandparents ashes.

Without too much thought, I just swung around on one foot and fired at the oranges, just as the door shut.

Fair bit of luck involved. But then again - you have to make your own luck in this world.

Highly tuned situational awareness and sophisticated reflexes to take advantage of 'luck' I guess for street shooting?

@ and anticipation...

@ Max

Luck.

..I thought maybe you farted really loud :)))

A Hat Trick!! Congrats!!

Wonderful moment

3x3...you owned this theme, baby!!

@ Max

A big lumbering idiot foreigner pirouetting with a camera.... I'd have looked as well!

Whereas I would have had my assistant contact all these people individually, arrange for them to meet me on the subway and pay them to look with great intensity into the camera while I said, "One more, please!"

Yet this moment is so much better than something planned in advance.

Congratulations, Richard.

@ King

You'd need to hire actors and not models.....

@Richard...actors, of course. I have an acting background and am a senior member of Actor's Equity (retired), so that's right up my alley.

I could probably never match this image, although I'd try to get Vincent D'Onofrio as the guy with the bag of oranges, Clive Owen for the tough guy up front, Zhang Zi-Yi as the woman on the right (after ageing her a bit), and I'd try to find spots for Meryl Streep and Emma Thompson--but even then...

I think Ed Harris would have to be there too.

I wrote a story with Ed Harris in it once.
Loved him in Knightriders.
Rawr.

Gotta be him from Glengarry Glen Ross! In a story all about being a man and men of men. He was the most man of them all. Pacino a close second....

Rather like this one!

Love the geometry and the intensity of the looks into the lens.