Topos/Chora Revisited IV

The famed photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson spoke of the "decisive moment" saying, "There is a creative fraction of a second when you are taking a picture. Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera. That is the moment the photographer is creative," he said. "Oop! The Moment! Once you miss it, it is gone forever."  I have missed hundreds of shots because of this fleeting nature of movement of people, objects, light and any other number of variables.  I have also just left the scene of a potential photograph wishing later that I had just shot it.  This is one of those photos that I am so glad that I shot.

The cars are essential aspects of the project for getting groceries to hauling the team back and forth to the site, and general travel around the island visiting other sites.  They take a beating and need a good cleaning when we are done. But there is something beyond the necessity of the cars that endears this photograph to me.  I suppose it is the humor of it...something reminiscent of Elliot Erwitt perhaps. What are the odds that these cars would stop, equal distances among them, and be left on the site with the hatch wide open?  It is perhaps the decisive moment in the reco