The "preparation" was applied while spending endless hours in the darkroom agonizing over printing "Hernandez" the way He saw it. Hard to believe the time He spent printing that particular image. Purportedly, His most sought after. In fact, one of His books identified it as the main reasons He finally decided to stop providing personally done prints.
Jack --- graywolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pretty typical statement for someone who has lots of good luck, but > does > not even recognize it as such. > > graywolf > http://www.graywolfphoto.com > http://webpages.charter.net/graywolf > "Idiot Proof" <==> "Expert Proof" > ----------------------------------- > > > > Mark Roberts wrote: > > >David Mann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > > > >>On Dec 18, 2005, at 6:37 AM, Mark Roberts wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>He was just driving by > >>>with his son when he saw the scene (and almost crashed the car > when he > >>>did). He jumped out, set up his camera, found out the batteries in > his > >>>light meter were dead, guesstimated the exposure and got one shot. > Any > >>>photographer of any skill/experience level can relate to this kind > of > >>>experience :) > >>> > >>> > >>I certainly can, except for the dead batteries. Many of my > favourite > >>photos have been mostly due to simple luck. > >> > >> > > > >I think "Moonrise Over Hernandez" is the quintessential example of > the > >old saying about "luck" being when preparation meets opportunity. > > > > > > > > > > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
