Zen and the Art of Photography (Or, Sights I Never Saw)
Paraphrasing Henry David Thoreau, one’s connection with the natural world is indirectly proportional to the amount of stuff one schlepps into nature. By that measure, a homeless soul sleeping in a city park is more connected to the grass and trees and earthworms burrowing under the leaf litter than any of us nature photographers for whom “being in nature” actually means capturing nature on film or a memory card. Certainly, any professional nature photographer, myself included, measures the success of a sojourn in the wild by the number of saleable images we extract from the locations we visit and, in order to do that, we necessarily have to bring along a lot of very expensive stuff. What’s more, if owing to bad weather or uncooperative wildlife we don’t get any useable images at all, well, it’s as if we were never there.
Green Mountain Boys
Nikon FE2, Nikkor 50mm f/1.8 lens
Polarizer
1/125″ at f/16, ISO 100
manual metering, sunny 16
handheld
scan from 35mm slide
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