More Than a Rock

Isolation35

A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude.

—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

A student approached me toward the end of a workshop and commented that he did not see me expose a single image. Indeed, I make a point of not using workshop time to pursue my own work. The primary reason is that I never want participants to worry about interrupting me. Also, I only take clients to places that I am very familiar with and have visited and photographed many times before, and where it is unlikely that I’ll find something truly novel, especially as my attention is dedicated to the tasks of teaching and socializing. But, there is another, less obvious, reason: almost all my creative work ...