Richard Lee's Letter Dated July 9, 1993

Vision Quest

excerpt from a letter dated July 9, 1993

...I have used all kinds of cameras, but now I am down to a Nikon with automatic lenses and features. There is a manual override, but I rarely use it. Detail to me in photography is most important. I know great pictures can be made with softer lenses, but for me, detail is the very reason for photography....

You asked about my dreams: I dream of course. Everyone does, but I am not remembering many of them unless they are really powerful and important or unless they are a dream I have asked for. (You know--if you go to bed with a problem, you can ask to have it clarified or resolved in a dream. Sometimes you will get your answer.) But I too have had large Shamanic dreams. In fact, my Vision Quest dissolved itself in dream, a dream that solved everything I went into the field to find....

I am fasting today on watermellon [sic] juice, so if I sound a bit fruity, you will know the reason. Nothing but watermellon [sic] juice. All you can drink....