Lag.

this spring break I am going to try and get into some video stuff. I went to baltimore today and tried to catch clips.
It is, for a reason I have yet realized, harder for me to capture a good film clip than it is for me to snag a decent still frame (photograph). It's all about timing. Cartier Bresson's The Decisive Moment. There is a lag time that I have to get used to when working with video; i tend to prematurely end or start a video because I forget that I am in video mode; the video end's up being right in the middle of the decisive moment that Bresson talks about, therefore, ruining the whole point of the video...

Disapointment of the day: We are stopped at a red light. Out of the front windshield there is a homeless man wearing a dark green puffy winter jacket and a black sweatshirt with the hood up, pushing a very large bundle of belongings covered in blankets held together with bunji cords walking in the middle of the street. He is walking away from us on our right, so all we see is his back. Farther up the street on either side there are two large lit up and blinking construction arrows pointing at each other --> <--. The middle of the street was cast in very warm golds and yellows with a hint of magenta that bled into blues and purples as your eye moved farther from the center of the road.
this is why i need to carry my camera with me everywhere... my words aren't justice.