I gave a workshop in Be’er Sheva yesterday. By train, it takes a little more than an hour to get back to Tel Aviv. I looked out the window at the changing scenery—mostly dry and yellow, typical of the end of an Israeli spring. My camera was in my bag. “What a waste,” I thought to myself. “There’s no such thing as nothing to photograph! ” The only reason not to take photographs is laziness. There is always an interesting photograph, everywhere, anytime. It is waiting. They are waiting. All I need to make good photographs is to look and imagine. So I picked up my camera.

Here are some of the photos I had made, sitting in the train, looking out.

I preferred doing almost no editing on these photographs. I kept everything soft, almost exactly as the images came out of the camera. The softness came from the glare and dust on the window, and from the slow shutter speed. The only post-processing I did was to add a slight contrast boost to some photographs, and selective sharpening to others (such as the photograph of the horses).

In retrospect, years later, I can look back and tell myself I was lucky to decide to shoot back then. Some of the images struck me with their unique panning lines. That led me to explore photography through the windows of fast-running trains. Some of these images are in the Training gallery, which only strengthens my first instinct: There is no such thing as nothing to photograph.