Mike Johnson at The Online Photographer does it again – in a wonderful post inspired by what may be his final visit to the family summer home:

I have often compared photography to fishing. I think it’s the best metaphor for the type of photography I do, and the type I like: you educate, prepare and equip yourself as best you can, and train by practicing, but, in the end, what you catch still depends on luck, chance, fate, and whim.

I’ve taken tens of thousands of pictures in Northern Michigan, I suppose. But no matter how many pictures I’ve taken, I’ve probably seen ten times as many, if not more. That’s certainly the way photography is: there are far more fish in the river than one fisherman could possibly catch in the brief time he’s got to fish. The photographs I’ve made, nice though many of them are, are no match for the ones that got away.

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