“Oftentimes after photographing all day, I’m pretty much exhausted. On this day, I was ready to pack it in, to get back into the car and to drive back to the motel for a hot shower and a meal. But for some reason I decided to walk a little bit further in this Monroe, Louisiana neighborhood. I’m so glad that I did because as I turned a corner I saw these young men playing basketball. The man who’s leaning up against the post seemed to me to be absolutely wonderful, and I knew that there was a photographic possibility here. In this case I felt it so strongly that what I did was really, I think – really pretty forward: I walked right up to them and I said, ‘You have to let me take a picture. I have to make a photograph here. You are so great, you’re going to make a wonderful photograph.’ My attitude was that I was never going to take no for an answer. I would never leave without taking a photograph. And they responded by laughing; looking at each other and saying ‘there’s no picture here to be taken.’ I said, ‘I assure you – I’m positive of it. And they finally agreed, and I went ahead and I posed them the way that you see them. The man leaning against the post, I think, is one of the most amazing looking people I’ve ever photographed – better than anything I could have imagined.”