"Snapshots" -- Looking through the photo lens to capture the physical detail of a scene.
Ma put he kids to bed and did some sewing till the fell asleep.
Ma kissed them both, and tucked the covers in around them. The lay there awhile, looking at Ma's smooth, parted hair and her hands busy with sewing in the lamplight. Her needle made little clicking sounds against her thimble and then the thread went softly, swish! Through the pretty calico that Pa had traded furs for.
-Ingalls Wilder
Little House in the Big Woods
The baker, who was an older man with a thick neck, listened without saying anything when she told him the child would be eight next Monday. The Baker wore a white apron that looked like a smock. Straps cut under his arms, went around back and then to front again where they were secure under his heavy waist. He wiped his hands on his apron as he listened to her. He kept his eyes down on the photographs and let her talk. He let her take her time. He'd just come to work and he'd be there all night, baking, and he was in no real hurry.
-Raymond Carver
A Small Good Thing