William Eggleston film

I watched "William Eggleson - Photographer" (Directed by Reiner Holzemer), the other day. The film showed how he found some of his subjects and then approached shooting them. A number of things really struck me. Firstly, the seeming banality of his subjects and the fact that he finds them so near to his home - just by driving around until he's taken with a certain location. Secondly, that once out the car he walks through the scene and casually takes his camera to his eye when approaching a subject composes for a fraction of a second then takes a single shot and moves on to the next subject which interests him. This seems entirely counter to the principal of planning a shoot, picking the time of day, walking round the subject and spending several minutes choosing the right composition, waiting for the right light, taking a shot, trying another composition, etc etc. In the film he states that he always takes one shot so as to avoid the annoyance of having to choose a preferred shot afterward. He speaks about being inspired by Cartier Bresson in the film and this would be in keeping with the principal of the decisive moment, but he doesn't seem to wait for the decisive moment, he just grabs the shot and moves on. Clearly this ability comes from decades of practice and looking at some of his photographs, I can't believe that they were taken in such a seemingly casual manner. Moreover there must be a lot of pretty dull photographs taken via the process. However, the principal of choosing a seemingly uneventful location but committing to finding something beautiful in the seemingly mundane is a compelling proposition. As is committing to a single shot of each subject while on location. It's got me thinking about some potentially interesting (or not as the case may be) locations I pass on the way to work. Think I'll give it a try over the next week or two......