Photo by williamalbertallard / This is a festival in the French town of Sare, taken in 1967, while I was documenting the French and Spanish Basque country for National Geographic magazine. The evening celebration is seen in the soft light of dusk—the kind of light the French call “the time between dogs and wolves.” Some people are dancing, others are simply watching, some from the shadows. It brings me back to that time so long ago when I tried hard to depict the mountainous Basque country with its warm village life. After sundown the challenge always became trying to capture what I saw on color film, which was not at that time very sensitive. I trained myself to hold a camera very still in order to use very slow shutter speeds. A quarter of a second probably, a half a second maybe, a full second if I was really steady or could prop the camera something. It was not a matter of using flash because back then I wasn’t able to blend any kind of strobe light with the ambient light in the w...