Sam Abell on Patiance, Passion and Slowing Down

[Rogier]

Nice interview.

http://bcove.me/j4d91v2w

[sevres_babylone]

I really appreciate your posting this. I like the slow build to the climax, and the postscript is nice too.

[Rollmo]

Thanks for the link...I'm interested to hear what Sam has to say about spelling.

[Ljós]

Thank you very much, that was great.
Oh, the Golden Days of National Geographic...

[rgeorge911]

Yes, that's a very interesting piece.

Those bison "skulls" sure look like fairly recently-killed "heads" to me.

The final image really is something. A dream. I'm glad to see the drafts that led to it. Makes me feel there is hope for making great images someday.

Reed

[MartinP]

I'm wondering about the hit-rate he mentioned - eight published out of 25000 shots, almost 700 rolls of 36 exp transparency film?! Possibly he was exaggerating a little bit given the context, but a whole staff shooting like that would certainly have kept some film manufacturers happy! Given the skill of the guy, I'm sure there would have been a huge proportion of good pictures so perhaps 'hit-rate' would be the wrong term. For sure I'd have nightmares about the editing...

[capitalK]

This one is also excellent, a talk he gave on release of his book "The Life of a Photograph"

I particulary took to the story of him shooting pears on a window sill looking out over Red Square, which took him a full day to shoot.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ceJ0S5P-Ybc

[Vics]

Thanks for posting this. It's a great story and sa great photo at that. Very likeable guy.