I made this image only a few minutes before the previous one. Only this image interprets the sport of beach volleyball in an entirely different way. While the previous image concentrates its attention upon a single player, this one involves a man on man confrontation. The figures here are larger and closer, as an attacker and defender clash at the net. This image relies upon spacing – the tension created within the tiny space between the ball and the net itself crackles with energy. It is this decisive instant that provides the expressive power of this image. I shoot all the players as silhouettes, abstracting them into symbolic figures. I later converted the image into black and white to intensify this abstraction.