About 5 hours into a flight from New York to Egypt, I woke up and saw that almost the entire plane was dark. Everyone else was also asleep, except one man who was off to my left.
His light was on and he was reading a local Egyptian paper that had been passed out earlier in the flight. The light from above lit only his seat in the darkness and I knew there was a photo. He was exactly how I envisioned the shot to be when I grabbed my phone and in the time it took for it to turn back on, he’d finished reading that page and was now in a different position. With nothing but time on my hands, I sat in the darkness and waited for him to finish reading an entire page and for him to be exactly how he was, almost 10 minutes earlier. He folded the paper over and even bit his nail which to me added an extra layer of depth to his character. I took the shot and it was how I had seen in my head. To the world, it may just be a man sitting and reading a paper, but to me, I saw a man heading home, catching up on current events relative to his life. For any shot you have in mind, you need to always be ready. Always shooting.