personal and to follow where his vision leads.
“Initially, it got me to explore the local area,” he says, “that I
hadn’t really explored before. I just enjoyed it, and that’s why I
did it. And then 10 years later, I looked back at my work, and I
was like, ‘Wow, it’s all black-and-white, and it’s pretty much all
long exposure.’ And I didn’t really mean for that to happen. It
just happened organically because that’s what I was interested in.
“What helped is that I had absolutely zero expectations for
income from photography,” he continues. “I was organizing
these workshops for other people, so I could basically do what-
ever I’d like to do, and I took advantage of that. I didn’t try to go
into a niche. Lots of people over the years tell me, ‘You picked
up on this really popular niche and went into long exposure,Drumheller, Alberta, Canada. “I’d like to think that I’m
accomplished enough as a photographer to realize that gear
certainly isn’t everything. So I don’t really even want to be
known as the guy that happened to be able to afford such a
camera and now thinks that he’s the greatest photographer
because he has this expensive camera. I think that it’s almost
like a responsibility to have this because I want to convince
people that it’s not the camera.”
³ Phase One IQ3 100 Achromatic with Phase One XF
camera, 80mm lens. Exposure: 1/1000 sec., ƒ/6.8, ISO 200.
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