From The Keppler Files: November, 1964

As soon as you see a scene which interests you, shoot it immediately. Perhaps you can better it in angle or composition. Perhaps you can't. Don't take the chance that your subjects may move, or change expressions. When you've improved the picture measurably, don't wait and think, shoot. Now move in for the final shot if your subject's still available.

Comments

[Michelle Knight]

That's absolutely golden advice; applicable to everything, even to architecture.

Sheffield had a feature called the "hole in the road" by the locals, which was a small stall area and pedestrian underpass, built beneath a roundabout. He had always meant to shoot it but put it off. One day, they introduced the trams to Sheffield and filled it in. He never got to shoot it, despite the years it was there. He thought it would always be there to shoot tomorrow...