Don Marcial with Ox
Calle San Jose, Paraguay 1996
James Patton
I actually failed to capture the image that I was after in this photograph.
The sun had dropped into the 'magic hour' position, bathing everything
with a crimson hue, but running home to get my camera and returning cost
me not only the perfect light, but the candid concentration of my 'Campo
Dad', Don Marcial, intent on listening to the radio-broadcast of the soccer
match. Reconstructing the shot gave a good sense of my evenings in Paraguay,
however.
© 2002 The
Fletcher School, Tufts University