Kawika Gonzales bundled up for the cold, windy, rainy conditions so he could fish on Les Davis Pier at Marine Park in Tacoma. Gonzales is from Hawaii visiting family. He said it was 87 degrees in Hawaii before he left for the Puget Sound.

Phyllis Kirkus of Mill Creek hangs on to her errant umbrella on a gusty day before the SeaHawks playoff game, January 5, 2008.

Us news photographers are almost never so lucky as to JUST HAPPEN to be in the right place with the camera already set and up, ready to shoot, when a brief event such as this one-- a blown umbrella with a facial reaction-- occurs. But we can maximize our chances of catching such a shot with some anticipation.

In this case I was among the throngs when I saw the woman with her umbrella blown inside out. She restored it and I decided to follow her, thinking that it might happen again.

I walked in front of her with a wide angle lens prefocused to about 5 feet. I didn't want her to notice me and stop or pose, so I didn't walk backwards in front of her but rather walked forwards, looking over my right shoulder with the camera already held out, partly behind me at about shoulder level, pointed at her.

When the umbrella inverted again, I hit the shutter, without bothering to look through the viewfinder (as I so often do).

That first frame caught her expression.