Katy Perry, Visualization, and Meditation — How 1 Photographer Preps For the Met Gala

"A couple years ago, when Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes were first appearing in public together, they showed up at the gala, and I wanted to grab a picture of them. That's when my flash stopped working. Thankfully, I always come prepared with a backup plan. I decided to 'drag the shutter' in order to catch some of the other photographers' flashes, which was really my only option at the time. That photo wound up being one of my most popular shots of the year. Maybe people liked it more because it was so different from what everyone else was doing."