Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Sometimes I write captions on the in-flight magazines and then replace them in the seat pocket.
For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.
If my characters travel somewhere, I generally write about a place I know to give the scenes more authenticity.
It doesn't matter where it is in the world or who I'm making the movie with; that's the closest thing that I've got to a sense of placement.
Places are extremely important when writing a long story because place shapes a character.
My memory of those places is better than my pictures. That's why I get much more satisfaction out of shooting thematic work that has to do with an idea that I'm searching for, or searching to express.
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
For some time it's been my habit to use images when preparing a speech: rather than write it down, I illustrate it.
I'm horribly hands-on, I'm afraid. I like to read every caption.
Wherever there are words, let there be pictures.