Maybe there's something special about this spot that generates interesting moments. I remember telling my friends after capturing my favorite candid shot - the one of the couple chatting on that great looking wood bench by a pond in Central Park, that it was a perfect moment in time. It was one of those shots where everything came together to create a perfect moment. It was so special that I told them it would be another 20 years before I captured another candid moment as good. Turned out it only took me 3 months, as I captured that great shot of a man smoking his cigar, while holding his dog in one hand.
That man was sitting less than 10 yards from where the boy in this shot is. Only then it was in the fall, and the water had been shut off for the season, so Michael (the man with the cigar) could rest his feet where the water would have been flowing. Today with spring finally here the waterfalls were back on, and as I sat by this idyllic spot letting my cheeseburger and milkshake calmly digest in my belly, I people watched in the gorgeous 70 degree sunshine with my camera sitting on my table an easy reach from my fingers.
As I did I watched two young boys playfully do all sorts of things with the water here. Splashing it, dropping things into it, then both of them found some twigs and grazed them across the surface. They were to my right front lit at the time, and I just missed capturing them in a great moment moving in unison. Then about 10 minutes later the older brother picked back up his twig and again started skimming it across the shallow water, only now he was on my opposite side which left him wonderfully back lit, my favorite lighting situation, and this time I was waiting for him.
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