The Prowler / "Hunters, After All, Aren't Cooks"

Henri Cartier-Bresson once famously said: "Actually, I'm not all that interested in the subject of photography. Once the picture is in the box, I'm not all that interested in what happens next. Hunters, after all, aren't cooks".

Last weekend, I went for a photo-walk at the Philadelphia Chinatown. I wasn't the only one there! I noticed this photographer prowling. In the first photo below, you see him spot his prey. In the title photograph above, he takes his shot, and in the very last photograph he's already moving on. The whole sequence took all but two seconds.

The prey is spotted:
Before