Thanks guys.

Me and landscape photography don't get along because of two reasons:

1) I'm a control freak. I want everything to be exactly how it looks in my head.
2) I'm impatient. I'm too impatient to wait for the perfect circumstances where a scene is bathed in just the right light in order to capture what I want.

With auxiliary lighting, I feel I can create something from nothing - that I don't have to wait for all the pieces to fall into line. Instead, I can create an interesting scene on demand (or, at the very least, flattering light on my subject).

Granted, it's a lot of work...and a portrait session with me is no picnic for the subject, either. It's usually slow with a lot of testing and tweaking. But in the end, I usually capture images that I'm proud of and my subjects enjoy. And that's why I do what I do. :-)