chapter one It Means Something I belIeve there are two kInds of vIsIon separate from the ability to see with our eyes. there is personal vision, and there is photographic vision. Personal vision is the big picture; it's macro vision. It is your worldview and, to return to dr. king, it was everything in his sizable heart and mind that led him to believe what he did, say what he did, and teach what he did. It's who you are. Photographic vision is vision as it pertains to an image, or a body of work. It is your intent for that one image. two analogies come to mind. the first is dr. king again; Nikon D3s, 24mm, 10 seconds @ f/22, ISO 200 Curio Bay, New Zealand, 2010. I photographed this image, and the preceding one, in Curio Bay on New Zealand's South Island, within minutes and mere feet of each other. The elements and decisions that went into both differ and result in different moods. This particular scene was a fantastic kelp forest at low tide, the long tendrils of the kelp moving to and fro with the surge of the surf, which is here reduced to a blur and given a more peaceful feeling than a shorter shutter speed would have resulted in. Images like this, for all our good fortune in finding such a place and waiting out the light and the weather, are a result of our intention. 6