Exercise 4 - An active portrait

I have always been fascinated by people's hands and enjoy taking pictures of them whilst that person is working.  This fisherman was mending his nets as the fishing boat was unable to go out due to engine problems.

There are always nets drying over racks on The Cobb at Lyme but rarely do you see anyone repairing on them.  The first two images of the contact sheet above show 2 or 3 men working on them, Image 2 features one man with his shuttle mending a large hole in the net.
Images 3 and 4 show a closeup of his actions threading and knotting the line.

Mending the nets