Awarded a second Guggenheim Fellowship. Finishes writing, while housebreaking a puppy, a series of essays on photography. “A perfect landscape will for us always include a dog—for fun, beauty, and affection. And maybe for the dog’s independence of what, on the beach and prairie, interests us most—the harmony of land and sky. Dogs don't need a sense for it. For them, the world is everywhere and always whole.” —From notes made in 1980

“What a landscape photographer traditionally tries to do is to show what is past, present, and future at once. You want ghosts and the daily news and prophecy. . . . It’s presumptuous and ridiculous. You fail all the time.” —From an interview in the Colorado Springs Sun, 1980 Publishes From the Missouri West.

Begins making half-models of boats and ships. Publishes Beauty in Photography.