There’s a large body of research on expertise — much of it built on the work of psychologist Anders Ericsson — and one of its central findings is counterintuitive: the number of hours you spend practicing something matters far less than how you spend them. Doing things you already know how to do, in roughly…
Six wild dogs, sleeping under a tree. Not moving. Not doing anything. We sat with them for two and a half hours. This is the part of wildlife photography that nobody really prepares you for — the waiting that doesn’t feel productive, that has no guarantee attached to it, that asks you to just stay…
The springboks were playing. That was the moment — the moment I’d been sitting there for, and suddenly it was happening right in front of me. So I started shooting. The photos were terrible. Not blurry or badly exposed — just unreadable. Two animals mid-leap, limbs tangled, neither one fully in frame. A kicked-up puff…