In the epistle "Re: Wide and Wider (Hap)" scribed 04-25-98 09:05,
Karen Wattie did thus proclaim to Larry Bolch:
Karen 
KW> I spent last Saturday at an 8 hour train-a-thon and, of course, had
KW> the camera with me.  Proved to myself I'm more out of practice than
KW> I thought :( but I gave the duplicates to the various people in the
KW> pictures and they were all thrilled....so I guess I'm seeing faults
KW> and they are seeing gifts.  
I would think that Karate would be excellent training for
doing action photography. A participant trains to be be able
to anticipate a spot in space where a blow will hit a moving
target, and the "target" anticipates the moment and place of
contact to block the blow. 
Much of sport involves a transfer of energy. The moment that
the bat hits the ball, the lineman hits the running back, the
bull snaps to throw the rider, and so on. It is at this moment
that the body language and facial expressions are most intense.
This is in anticipation of this decisive moment that the
shooter releases the shutter. The same anticipating that
allows a participant in karate to block a blow.
If a shooter actually SEES the picture, it is too late to get
it. If the participant sees where the blow is directed, they
will feel it rather than block it. I would think both use a
similar mind-set to be able to totally concentrate on gathering
information and processing it - tuning in to the crescendo of
energy - to be able to react just as it hits its peak. "Go with
the force, Luke." For me, more than a decade of shooting sports
was a matter of giving over to intuition - not intellectual
analysis. I got such consistent results that I almost believed
myself psychic!
Your thoughts, dear person?
larry!
... Every society honors its live conformists
    and its dead troublemakers.
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