New fishermen, his favorite sort to take out on the water, are more willing and even eager to try to catch something out of the Hudson.
The difficulty with such ambitious and highly topical reporting is that however carefully the observer tries to catch something permanent that might underlie the fleeting moment, the world is always changing before his readers' eyes.
"When I write about my father, I say little about the man himself but try to catch something archetypal about the way every boy, growing up, thinks that he has to create his own individual destiny entirely apart from his parents—and then, 30 years on, looks in the mirror or hears his own voice and realizes he's become his father.
Don't try to catch something if you don't know what it is.
People mistrust census takers for a variety of reasons, including a belief that the government is trying to catch them doing something illegal like misrepresenting the number of people in their household, which could affect benefits like food stamps, said Calvin Stewart, a Rolling Fork alderman, teacher, high school sports referee and spokesman for the town's new antilitter campaign.
Unless they've been given specific security duties, IT people should not be independently looking for wrongdoing or trying to catch people at something.
Meanwhile, the media (another result of McCain's complaining) transformed their mission from "covering Barack Obama" to "trying to catch Obama saying something stupid".
"People are always trying to catch me doing something crazy on camera," he mildly commented to the golfers, who now wanted to pummel me silly.
This year's party crashers are the Democrats, including a team of trackers from Super PAC American Bridge, who have been lurking around the main ballroom, trying to catch someone saying something stupid.
But when I look at my favorite of Hujar's animal photographs, the tonally lush image of the aforementioned rabbit, with its ears pricked at attention and its dark eyes open wide, I sense his presence behind the camera, trying to catch a glimpse of something beyond his knowing, if only for the fleeting moment of the camera shutter's click.
