Let your steps be velvet
Henri Cartier-Bresson, on the topic of the photographer’s intrusion on everyday life. Poetic, apposite and worth remembering.
…approach the subject on tiptoe, even if it is a still life. Let your steps be velvet but your eye keen; a good fisherman does not stir up the water before he starts to fish…refrain from snapping rapidly and mechanically…if something should happen, you remain alert, wait a bit, then shoot and go off with the sensation of having got something…