“But there is another kind of seeing that involves a letting go. When
I see this way I sway transfixed and emptied. The difference between
the two ways of seeing is the difference between walking with and
without a camera. When I walk with a camera I walk from shot to shot,
reading the light on a calibrated meter. When I walk without a camera,
my own shutter opens, and the moment’s light prints on my own silver
gut. When I see this second way I am above all an unscrupulous
observer.”
-- Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
