I taught up in Maine a couple of times and wasn't able to take a single picture. All that blue sky! Ugh. Sparkling clear air, just terrible. I couldn't do it.
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I had been teaching myself photography.
When I was teaching at Harvard in the 1970s, I went to Project Incorporated in Cambridge and took photography classes. I didn't even know how to aim the camera in those days.
This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.
I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.
I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.
I've learned to create a palette, a vocabulary of ways to take pictures.
A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
My dad had been an ardent amateur photographer, and he taught me to compose a photograph from the back to the front, and then populate the picture.
I became kind of a drop-out in science after I came back to America. I wanted to photograph.
All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
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