Sometimes photographers have to resort to what we call the “Hail Mary” shot.  Basically it just means that in order to get the shot we want, the camera has to be held out of range of being able to actually see the picture as it is taken.  Since I’m only five feet and nine inches tall, I tend to use this method quite often.  When the newly installed Archbishop Robert J. Carlson walked out of the the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica for the first time as the head of the St. Louis Archdiocese, I knew the shot I had to get.  One of the altar boys was holding a cross that towered about seven or eight feet above him.  I was standing on a step below him, holding my camera with a wide angle lens on it in a vertical position high above my head and pressing the motor drive as Archbishop Carlson walked out of the church.  There he is on the right side of the frame.  Hail Mary shot.  I guess I got lucky.