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Photo: @momatiukeastcott/@thephotosociety | all you do | "So, all you do is take pictures?" People asked us this question for years, which drove John quietly nuts. The most memorable outburst took place long ago in New Zealand. We spent a bitter winter night in an unheated hut, and then John grabbed his frozen boots and went with a farmer to look for his Merino sheep stranded in freshly fallen snow. We were working on our high country story for National Geographic magazine and had to follow sheep farmers up the gorges and ridges of the Southern Alps while trying to stay alive.

The quest occupied all day and took the men across snow fields polished blue by gales. They returned at dusk and while John drove back to our bone-freezing hut he got a flat tire. Hungry, tired and cold, he wrestled his spare on, but soon got another flat and had to walk. "I will kill the next bastard who asks us if all we do is take pictures," he announced.
And now, on the coast of Namibia, we suddenly remember this no longer irksome question. We arrived the night before. I photographed the sun sliding behind the fog and John stretched out on the sand to follow flamingos patrolling the surf. But this morning our camper would not start. Flat battery. Why? Never mind. No spark. In Africa. Miles from the nearest town.

John wanted to get a jump from our auxiliary battery but we had no jump cables. So he removed the dead battery and since the auxiliary would not fit in, he tilted it sharply until he could attach the PLUS terminal lead. Then, in order to connect the short ground lead to the auxiliary, he spanned the gap with a pair of vise grips he always carries, and extended its length with a lug wrench.

Then -- while holding the ends of both tools together to assure conductivity -- he said: " Get in and turn the engine on." The engine roared back to life. As we hit the gravel road, we remembered the question which used to drive John nuts. And all we still do is take pictures. ©Yva Momatiuk
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