Everyone’s heard the old adage ‘a picture paints a 1,000 words’, right? Well, as a journalist, I supply the picture as well as 1,000 words to go with it; some of it is an attempt to be informative, some of it is an attempt to be entertaining, but most of it is just to get paid.
Every now and then I get to photograph some trucks where there is no number of words that will ever entertain as well as the photos. Take Gavin Sutton’s Mack Superliner, for example. A photo of this Mack is worth more than 1,000 words, easily.
Unfortunately, though, my editor won’t let me invoice him for 1,000 words per photo! So in order to buy new memory cards after using them up in Sutton’s yard,…