June 25, 2019

When I first started photography I began to search for the best equipment. I slowly understood lens quality. And then I kept buying new formats–a Hasselblad, a viewcamera–and the best of those, or the best lenses for them, was too expensive for me.

I spent a lot of money regardless, and then came the digital revolution, and I didn’t join in. I had already spent so much, and I wasn’t ready for a whole new system. So when I went digital it was with my phone, and then with an underwater camera. And somehow I felt freer. The days of lugging huge bags of equipment up a mountain were gone. I could hike easily. I could even go underwater.

My books “Fifteen Exercises in Perception” and “21 Days of Mindful Photography” are about using a cell phone out in nature. It’s about free and relaxed movement.