Teaching Has Never Been Far From My

One Of The Things That I Most Believe In Is The Compose And Wait Philosophy Of Photography. It’s A Very Satisfying, Almost Spiritual Way To Photograph. Life Isn't’ Knocking You Around, Life Isn't Controlling You. You Have Picked Your Place, You’ve Picked Your Scene, You’ve Picked Your Light, You’ve Done All The Decision Making And You Are Waiting For The Moment To Come To You.

I Was Giving A Lecture And I Said, That's Enough About The Photographic Life, Meaning My Biography, Now Let's Talk About The Life Of A Photograph. And In That One Instant I Got The Title For A Potential Next Book.

I Will Just Say, Appropriation Is An Intellectual Idea Until It Happens To You. It's A Philosophy, And It's Got Its Own Intellectual Framework. Then There's What Happens When It's Your Photograph. Then It's Personal, And That's All I'll Say.

For Sheer Majestic Geography And Sublime Scale, Nothing Beats Alaska And The Yukon. For Culture, Japan. And For All-around Affection, Australia.

The Neatest Part Of This Book I'm Working On - To Me - Are The Pictures That Show The Process... Because Photographers... Think Things Through And... It Isn't Luck, And It Isn't Random And It Isn't Accidental. It Isn't.