I love this - such a cool shot!
Maggie
Thanks Maggie. The fact is though, that this is a "what I ended up with" shot - not a "what I hoped for" shot.
Here is the story: I was standing in the aisle of the packed bus. My wife Anne was sitting on the window side of the seat next to me, with a local woman between Anne and I. Being Anne had space around her, I handed her my shoulder bag with camera and other valuables.
The bus came to a stop and several people entered in the front door and squeezed by me to move to the back - including the woman with her chicken. For the next half hour I didn't really have a view of her.
As we got closer to the fishing town we were headed to, the bus stopped frequently to let people off. All of a sudden there was more space on the bus and the woman with the chicken was in clear view about 4 rows behind me.
THE SHOT I REALLY WANTED THOUGH was the perfect symmetry of this lady as well as an old white haired Nicaraguan woman sitting 2 rows further down (empty sear behind the young boy) - who had spun her knees to the aisle, exposing 3 stacked flats of eggs on her lap with binder twine wrapped around them.
The irony of the scene grabbed me and I hollered to Anne to quickly get my camera out of my shoulder bag so I could take a picture. Within seconds, the camera was in my hand and as I spun around to take the shot - the bus started slowing, the employee who collects money and helps people on and off, moved past me in the area I wanted to shoot.
As he carried on, the old lady with the flats of eggs had stood up behind him to exit the bus. I just about didn't bother taking the shot as it wasn't what I wanted. Instead, I smiled at the woman with chicken as I moved down the aisle a little and pointed the camera in her face. First shot she looked off out the window,and second shot looked at me to take the photo. I went up to her to thank her and show her the LCD screen of my camera.
Regardless, I am totally pleased with the image that I took. But it's the "what it could have been" that I don't like. Ah, I have many "missed shots" for whatever reason, so it's just another that no one but me is aware of.
