Actually, Ambition Won't Get You That Far.

I Have This Awareness That The More Dynamic The Situation Is, The More On Guard I Need To Be That The Dynamic Isn't Controlling The Situation. I Found That Myself In The Galapagos. For The First Time In My Life I Was Around Very Exotic Animals, Colorful, Beautiful, And Immediately Present, All Around. Birds, Turtles, Iguanas, Seals. I Was Being Seduced By Their Exoticism, I Was Taking Pictures.the Pictures Weren't Well Lit, There Was No Moment In Play, There Was No Depth To The Pictures. I Was Just Gawking With My Camera At Something I'd Never Seen Before.

Increasingly, It's People Not Interested In National Geographic.

A Mad, Keen Photographer Needs To Get Out Into The World And Work And Make Mistakes.

What I'm Interested In Is Modern American History. I'm Taken With The Changes That Have Occurred In America In My Lifetime.

It Actually Has Transcended My Career At The Geographic, So That When My Career There Ended, I Had Momentum As A Teacher, And A Belief In Photographic Education At The Workshop Level.