I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?
Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library - all this keeps me quite busy!
I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.
Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.
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.