Like many visitors to Cuenca, we were given a tour of a hat factory, in this city famous for its straw hats. I found this fellow dipping the straw into a steaming vat with a paddle. Just as he extracted the paddle from the water, he shouted something. At that instant, using a column of hot steam to abstract the scene, I made this shot. The working portrait is full of vitality and drama. He certainly puts a lot of himself into his work.