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On Proof: Why it Took Me Eight Years to Photograph My Own Backyard

We've all had projects that get stalled or stuck. And oftentimes things that are put on the backburner are eventually just forgotten. When Vincent J. Musi was assigned to photograph South Carolina's ACE Basin, which is less than 50 miles from his home, the project kept getting delayed because of more pressing assignments. He and Elizabeth Krist, his photo editor at National Geographic, corresponded over the years, always touching base about the story. Should it be cut? Would it ever be finished? Thankfully, eight years after he started, Musi took the last shot for the story, "Lowcountry Legacy," which was published in the November issue of National Geographic magazine.

You can read Musi and Krist's hilarious email correspondence about this photographic journey back on Proof.

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