Photography is a lot like fly fishing, really.
Both require study and discipline that appear in the final outcome as art and grace.
A great photograph, like a great catch can sometimes happen by accident but is far more often the fruit of long labor and preparation.
Fish must be stalked. A photograph must also be stalked.
Fishing and photograph are both intimately bound to the time of day, the season, the atmospheric conditions, moods of water and light and the precise nature of the subject.
Despite all the work that goes into a great catch or a great shot, the artist receives each of them as grace – a moment of pristine coherence in which all his tremendous effort was but the prelude to a divine gift.
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