A baseball batter stood at the plate in full stance. Behind him, the catcher crouched in position. Between them, the camera found an angle where the batter's backside and the catcher's face occupied the same vertical line, and the result looked like a Renaissance painting about proximity.
Baseball catchers spend nine innings crouched behind batters. The position requires them to stare forward into a zone that the batter's body partially blocks. From the dugout, this looks normal. From the third-base camera, this looked like a study in uncomfortable framing. The pitch came in. The batter swung. The catcher held his ground and his dignity, neither of which the photo preserved.
