"The clouds kept moving back and forth. Something happened with his light meter and he became slightly agitated. He took a few shots. He abandoned the light meter. A cloud went by and the triangle disappeared. He said, “You know, I really like the whiteness of the shirt. Can you take the jacket off?”

I flung my jacket over my shoulder, Frank Sinatra style. I was full of references. He was full of light and shadow.

“It’s back,” he said.

He took a few more shots.

“I got it.”

“How do you know?”

“I just know.”

He took twelve pictures that day.

Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet.

“This one has the magic,” he said.

When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."

― Patti Smith, Just Kids