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By Bors Vesterby
Introduction
When I started as a photographer, I spent some time in the faraway outback with Nick Rains.  One spectacular morning as I fumbled some expensive gear, Nick commented, "Relax, Bors. The landscape isn't going anywhere."  His words were about patience, but patience in a dynamic form that we don't ordinarily consider.  In the years following, I found that more than technical knowledge, artistic vision, woodcraft, time in the field, or time in the studio, an essential photographic skill is this kind of patience.

You didn't bring what?
Before that trip to the outback, a lack of patience nearly cost me a bitter night in the mountains.  While photographing on a ridge five miles in, 3800 feet up from the trailhead, and with less than an hour of daylight left, I made a discovery.
In the rush to get on location, neither myself nor my photographic assistant had packed a flashlight. After a moment of uncomfortable silence, we discuss how to get ba...

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