Nothing Is Ever The Same As They

One Thing I Would Never Photograph Is A Dog Lying In The Mud.

I Never Have Taken A Picture I've Intended. They're Always Better Or Worse.

It Gets To Seem As If Way Back In The Garden Of Eden After The Fall, Adam And Eve Had Begged The Lord To Forgive Them And He, In His Boundless Exasperation, Had Said, "all Right, Then. Stay. Stay In The Garden. Get Civilized. Procreate. Muck It Up." And They Did.

It's Important To Take Bad Pictures. It's The Bad Ones That Have To Do With What You've Never Done Before. They Can Make You Recognize Something You Hadn't Seen In A Way That Will Make You Recognize It When You See It Again.

I Used To Have This Notion When I Was A Kid That The Minute You Said Anything, It Was No Longer True. Of Course It Would Have Driven Me Crazy Very Rapidly If I Hadn't Dropped It, But There's Something Similar In What I'm Trying To Say. That Once It's Been Done, You Want To Go Someplace Else. There's Just Some Sense Of Straining.