Reading the River First: Sunrise Composition Lessons from a Fiordland Mountain Valley

Reading the River First: Sunrise Composition Lessons from a Fiordland Mountain Valley

There’s a particular kind of creative paralysis that hits when you’re standing in a place almost too beautiful to photograph. Too many subjects. Light moving fast. You spin around trying to decide where to point the camera and end up shooting nothing well. I’ve been making landscape images for twenty years, and that feeling still shows up on big mornings. What cuts through it isn’t inspiration. It’s a working method.