The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.
In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.
I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.
Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.