In photography, if you have purpose and an intent, you can allow yourself to
be beset by gargantuan problems during the taking of pictures. These
problems must be worked out in advance, and if you're not sure you've licked
them before you start you stay away from them until you've mastered them by
experiment before you attempt to make a picture. I do not mean that every
minutiae should be rehearsed in advance, for if the taking became a purely
mechanical routine, all spontaneity would be lost and the result could only
be lifeless and dull....Most of the stories of "tough" assignments, though
they make good stories, don't seem to be conductive to good photography.
