This is perhaps the luckiest example of street photography in this gallery. I just happened to be passing by the open back door on the second level of a house while this lady was hanging laundry high over a winding street in the Alfama, Lisbon’s oldest neighborhood and probably its most picturesque. And to make it even better, the flag of Portugal was hanging over the street from the house next door! But lucky as my magical appearance on this spot was, I had to make the shot work. To do that, I had to capture the instant in time when the tensions in this image were the highest. The energy crackling between the reaching fingers of the woman and the laundry itself is one of those things that only happen when the shutter is released at the right moment in time. To get this shot I took it again and again as the old laundry came in and new laundry went out. But this is the moment that best tells the story.