I spend a lot of time editing my pictures while on a shoot, both on the fly and later on the laptop. Tim May caught me studying my images in camera – I was so absorbed in my task that I never saw him make this shot. Tim abstracts his image by taking a tight, intimate vantage point – the viewer is almost looking over my shoulder as I work. He later intensified the abstraction by converting the image to black and white. Some photographers would not crop a head shot this tightly in the frame, but Tim saw how closely I was looking at my pictures, and effectively brings in his frame to make the viewer look more closely at me.