I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

I sold all my medium format equipment in 2005 after Canon came out with the 12 megapixel EOS 1Ds.

Digital makes it so much easier. No bricks of film, no worrying about airport X-rays, etc.

Freelancing in Somalia during their civil war and in Kuwait right after the first Bush War, I had some rather intense experiences that made life in the U.S. seem rather shallow and superfluous.

I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

With the Internet, you can get lots of info in advance, but a local person who knows how to work the system is invaluable.

RAW is very forgiving. I was photographing a farm woman in Ecuador cooking over a small fire and my fill flash didn't go off a few times. I was about to delete the RAW files but decided to play with the curves first because I like the composition. It turned out that the image, although underexposed by two stops, was better than the fill-flashed images because the fire was the only source of illumination and it looked more real.