Craft · · 3 min
Light is a schedule
Treating weather, season and hour as production constraints rather than luck.
Placeholder essay. Amateurs wait for good light. Professionals book it — they know what month, what hour, and which direction the valley faces, and they plan the rest of the trip around that window.
It removes the romance and doubles the hit rate. The romance survives anyway; it just arrives on time.
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