The Lonely Fisherman

Yes, Cipriano Photography is open for business. Maternity, newborns, children, families -- all around lifestyle (portrait) photography. Now, the below photo may stray a bit from the "family" style photography that I do, however, I love the story it tells. That's the beauty of photography, from just looking at a single picture, we create an entire backstory for it. It's voodoo...it's magical.

I was taking a short weekend trip with my wife and son and I woke up on Saturday morning - early, like 4:30am early. Not by choice, the little guy likes to do this trick where he thinks he's an alarm clock and wakes us up! Anyway, by 5:00am I had given up hope on falling back to sleep. So, I grabbed my camera and headed out. First, of course, I stopped and had a coffee. Then, walked over to the beach. This beach in particular always has a ton of morning fishermen, they line the water, about 20 yards apart for as far as you can see. I walked to water line snapping some pictures of various fisherman. Then, I noticed him. This particular fisherman was a little farther down than the others and much farther apart. He was with another guy, but almost pretended that he wasn't even there. The fisherman not in the photo was making frantic trips back and forth - to the cooler, back to the pole....back to the cooler, back to the pole. But, our main man here - stood completely still. I wondered, what he was thinking about? Maybe he was just taking in the same view that I was or maybe he was right where he wanted to be and didn't want to move to spoil the moment. Whatever the case, I snapped this shot and immediately knew I had a keeper. What do you guys think??