The man was sitting alone behind the main altar of Croatia’s greatest Cathedral, staring straight ahead with clasped hands. He was so deeply into prayer and meditation that he rarely moved or changed expression while I was there. I wanted to make an image defining his concentration and devotion. But I certainly did not want to disturb him. Sitting on a bench fifty or sixty feet away, I placed my camera on the back of the bench in front of me for stability. My 432mm telephoto lens allowed me to reach out across that space and the fill nearly half my frame with the praying man. The light was very poor, but my camera has an image stabilized lens, which gave me the freedom to use both a low ISO (100) and a shutter speed as slow as ¼ of a second and perhaps get a sharp picture in the light that was available to me. I never use an intrusive flash, under any circumstances. I turned off all noises on my camera, and probably made about thirty or forty images of him over a ten- minute period. Many of them were slightly blurred, but this was one was perfect. He was so far away that my depth of field extended well beyond him and defined the names of historical figures on the wall behind him in sharp focus. This image is all about concern, acceptance, and perhaps a touch of sadness as well – all of them resonant human values.