Once the amateur’s naive approach and humble willingness to learn fades away, the creative spirit of good photography dies with it. Every professional should remain always in his or her heart an amateur”
~ Alfred Eisenstaedt
This is one of my earliest photographs. I was living in Madrid, back in the 1980s, and I had just bought a Canon AE-1. I was on a back road, on my way to a friend’s house some 30 kilometers outside of town. Suddenly I saw the goal and pulled over. I looked around… there was nothing as far as I could see - no school, no houses, not even another goal. But there were mountains and clouds and no one around - an amateur’s delight and still one of my favorites.
Emptiness