The constraint of time imposed by the self-imposed necessity of finishing the book on the same day makes it impossible to look too deeply into the images or second-guess my choices. I also have no time to bring anyone else into the selection or sequencing process. The first opportunity I have to study the details in the images is after I receive the first printed copy of the book in the mail. In every case I have been delighted by aspects of the images or coincidental relationships that I never observed at the time the exposures were made, nor even when I assembled the book. […]

