I'm a quite erratic person: From setups to actually when I'm doing a track, it's just turning and switching and changing all the time.
A man has to know his limitations.
I wish more people felt that photography was an adventure the same as life itself and felt that their individual feelings were worth expressing. To me, that makes photography more exciting.
I guess I've shot about 40,000 negatives and of these I have about 800 pictures I like.
If you choose your subject selectively - intuitively - the camera can write poetry.
Experience is the best teacher of all. And for that, there are no guarantees that one will become an artist. Only the journey matters.
To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.
As for money and prestige, if one has an opportunity to make money andor advance their position or place in life there can be a lot to weigh and consider, such as responsibilities, goals and objectives etc. We all make choices, deal with our sense of priorities, principles, ethics, morals, balancing, juggling, making compromises. . . or not! Ha!
If one admits that the influence of the outside world is essentially beneficial, the lack of such influence during sleep would tend to diminish the value of our dream activity so as to render it inferior to the mental activity that takes place when we are awake, when we are exposed to these beneficial influences of surrounding reality. But how can one say that the influence of reality is exclusively beneficial. Could it not also be damaging, and could its absence not give access to qualities superior to those that we have when awake?
What's risky is living your life and never trying for anything and never doing something brave and never getting yourself scared.
I used to try to pick locks because I grew up on my grandparents farm and I started my own little spy club. I would go around the farm and try to break into the shed and try spying on my grandpa. It was ridiculous.