Inspiration is the windfall from hard work and focus. Muses are too unreliable to keep on the payroll.
Helen Hanson, in “For Writers” (14 July 2010)
Brian Finke’s Atlantic Challenge
The Talisker Whiskey Challenge, a twenty-six-hundred-mile open-boat rowing race across the Atlantic Ocean, is considered one of the toughest challenges on the planet; more people have been to space than have rowed the Atlantic. Competitors row in two-hour shifts for over a month in boats seven metres long and two metres wide, equipped only with a small cabin for protection against storms and enough food and water to last the trip. This year, Brian Finke was there; he photographed the teams embarking from the Canary Islands in early December, and caught up in Barbados to capture the first finishers in mid-January.
For more of Finke’s photographs from the race: http://nyr.kr/e87pBj
Emphasis mine.
(via theatlantic)
Source: newyorker.com
