A mad, keen photographer needs to get out into the world and work and make mistakes. Sam Abell More Quotes by Sam Abell More Quotes From Sam Abell I was a consultant for Kodak back in the late 80's. There were engineers there who told me that in the future, most photographs would be taken on telephones. They weren't able to do anything with that. They were engineers, not management. Sam Abell able taken would-be It's more difficult now, to be a Geographic photographer, than it was when I came along. And it wasn't easy at that time. Sam Abell difficult photographer easy That's who comes to my workshops. I jokingly tell my students that the class could be called "Your photographs: Better." Sam Abell photograph students class Increasingly, it's people not interested in National Geographic. Sam Abell national-geographic not-interested people I did a story for the Geographic on Meriwether Lewis and William Clark, and Stephen Ambrose was the writer. He said, "I've got the easiest job in the world. I just have to re-tell the story of the greatest fishing, camping, hunting, canoeing trip of all time. You, Sam, have the hardest job, which is, pretend like nothing has happened in the last 200 years. Sam Abell hardest-job hunting jobs In the last workshop I taught, a woman flew in from Thailand. She's a medical doctor in Bangkok. I asked her in her one-on-one session where she wanted photography to be in her life.Did she want a second career? Was it about earning money? Or was it art? And she said "None of those. I want photography to be serious in my life." It would be like someone wanting music, like piano playing, to be a richer, deeper, and maybe even harder experience. Sam Abell doctors photography art