A close friend of mine is a very keen fisher. Very keen. A simple stroll along the beach invariably elicits a steady stream of observations about the current state of the tide, the wind and weather, the sea temperature, the presence or absence of gutters and rips, what the solunar tables indicate and, above all, where and what the bird life is up to at that moment.
In a funny way, what he’s doing is not all that dissimilar to a photographer on a photo walk. We’re also looking at the world, watching the weather’s moment to moment changes, thinking about the way the light is now and speculating about what it will be later, looking for interesting angles and backgrounds and searching for the place and time where it…