Capturing The Moment Photo Contest by Focal Press Finalists!

Capturing the Moment is about a gesture, an expression, a ball in the net, a whale breaching, like Marilyn Monroe’s skirt flying up or Alfred Eisenstaedt’s image of a kiss between a soldier and nurse in Times Square. Moments in all forms are the true core of photography, and this book will explain how to anticipate them, recognize them, choose them, and capture them, through the eyes and wisdom of award-winning International photographer and celebrated author Michael Freeman. Thank you to all the photographers that shared their photos in this photo contest made possible by our friends at Focal Press. Focal Press has been a leading publisher of Media Technology books for over 75 years. We provide essential resources for professionals and students in many areas including: audio, film and digital video production, photography and digital imaging, animation, broadcast, theatre and web design. We are committed to publishing high quality books filled with practical hands-on information, dealing with cutting-edge and converging technologies from the experts in the field. Visit MasteringPhoto.com – A blog powered by Focal Press.

A special thanks to friend and professional photographer Michael Freeman for his collaboration as a guest judge. Michael Freeman is a renowned international photographer with over 40 years of experience shooting for a vast number of editorial clients, notably the Smithsonian magazine, Time-Life Books and National Geographic. He has over 100 books published around the world, with over three million in print, including the best-selling The Photographer’s Eye. For his educational work, he was awarded the Prix Louis Philippe Clerc by the French Ministry of Culture, and he is also responsible for the distance-learning courses on photography at the UK’s Open College of the Arts.

Congratulations People's Choice "Monument Valley" by corymarshall