When I'm lucky enough to run into one of those emotional currents worth photographing, and manage to successfully lock onto it with my camera I usually try to ride that vibe as long as I can until I manage to capture that magic moment. More often than not though, something happens to break that mood before I'm able to capture that potential image. The list of offending culprits is rather long, one of which is when a key member of the group stops doing whatever activity they were involved in that made them interesting to photograph in the first place, and look up into my camera.
Being the fun loving person I am, if they smile or wave I almost always instinctively smile and often wave back, but unless they were part of a large group of people that kept on doing their activity unabated, the little editor man inside of me looks at the shot from an aesthetic stand point and tosses it onto the proverbial cutting room floor. But there is no unbreakable rule when it comes to this kind of thing, and if you peruse through this gallery you'll see several times when I just kept on shooting anyway when this happened. Each time it was because their acknowledgement of my camera somehow didn't hurt or sometimes made the shot even better.
In this case when two of the girls in this rowboat spotted my camera, the emotional aura of fun flowing from the group never wavered, instead they just pulled me in.
