Eric is a fascinating guy to be around as well. If you ever get a chance of seeing his India work, it is stunning. I highly recomend it.
Last year I was lucky enough to be on a shoot with Eric in Iceland for the Volcano, and it was certainly an eye opener. I recall one specific example, we were stopped at one of the waterfalls for a break. The weather of the day was thoughly 'bleh', the lighting was worse, the particular waterfall not that inspiring, and most of us were standing around going 'hmm, what to do with this'. Eric and a couple others headed off, clearly seeing something else. Eric showed some of his shots later on the bus and several of us were 'Err, did you actually visit the same waterfall as the rest of us.....'.
There is an inteview with Eric from the same trip on Focus-on-Nature website -
http://www.focusonnature.is/id/1000355Regards
Mark Farnan
PS: Walking around town with Seth resnick was also a massive eye opener in ability to 'see'. They both see patterns, shapes, colour for compositions in what can be the most initially uninspiring of places !.