I use the practice of making photographs to sharpen the presence, listening, and questioning required to coach and serve clients at higher levels. My clients are driven to make something better in their personal and/or professional lives, thereby challenging me all the time.

Here the challenge at Yosemite National Park was to make sense of the complexity of the landscape and tell a simple story in a photograph. This challenge was intensified by whether to present the image in color or black and white.

Although I am wondering what American photographer Ansel Adams would have done on this foggy, raining day in the valley, I walked away with new insights on how to help clients see the complex in simpler terms so as to plot a way forward. Also, the need to keep practicing the art of coaching outside of client engagements and in seemingly unrelated ways; or maybe not so unrelated.