Behind the Shot
Read the stories of the images that almost didn't happen.
Sherry Keene | 07.24.2026
An over-engineered city guide, a heatwave with no exit, and a 4:00 a.m. interrogation by Prague's bar crowd.
Surviving potholes, broken crystal, and drunk composition critics to bring home one frame of Old Town Square.
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Sherry Keene | 07.23.2026
Tow-matering through town at 3:30 a.m.
If Hallstatt had a sense of humor, I was the punchline.
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Sherry Keene | 07.23.2026
The photo took ten seconds. The parking took years off my life.
Squeezing a giant van into a space the size of a baguette for the photograph that almost got away.
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Sherry Keene | 10.14.2025
Planned the perfect shot—the universe flipped the script.
I planned everything: the light, the tide, the timing. The universe read the script and laughed…
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Sherry Keene | 06.30.2025
From chaos to camera: the shot that almost got away.
Photographer of the Year, Noir 2024 — Silver Camera Award. The frame I nearly missed on the way back down.
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Sherry Keene | 10.14.2025
How a wrong turn produced the most photographed frame I own.
Waze ghosted me, Italy charged me for the privilege, and I still got the shot. Tre Cime di Lavaredo: 1. Me: also 1.
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