Trophy Hunting v. Immersion approaches to photography

So Darwin Wiggitt in the recent issue of OPC wrote about these two different approaches for photographing.  I guess he has observed these in his own shooting as well as when he participates and/or leads workshops.  Trophy hunters go in hard to grab the big shot - I guess things like the first bits of light streaming beyond the horizon, or the hot highlights rolling off the snowcapped peaks.  These images tend to be assertively, if not aggressively, coloured, and are often authentic renderings of the physical aspects of a scene.  Shooters of this ilk march into a new environment, shoot quickly and often, and come out with the big pictures, or what I would rather call the pretty pictures.  Immersion shooters spend their time feeling an environment waiting for the interesting or compelling elements to rise above the visual clutter.  They often work more slowly, produce fewer images, and would rather linger in that environment than moving on to a new one.  Wiggitt suggests that the trophy hunters are more likely to produce the award winning cover images, while the immersion approach is more conducive to producing cohesive and engaging sets of images.  He also suggests, based on his experience, that men tend to gravitate towards trophy hunting while women tend to immerse themselves in their surroundings.

I am definitively and happily an immersion shooter.  Those pretty things, the first bits of winter dawn light that skates across a frozen lake, the glint of the setting sun off an ancient glacier, or the easy interactions of heavy shadows and rolling hills, well those things I would rather look at than photograph.  When a moment is time dependent, I would rather experience it than attempt to control and capture it with my camera.  I would rather find subjects wherever I am, in whatever light I find myself, and with whatever weather might happen to be there.  Sure there are areas I return to in certain types of light or weather, but usually I just go with what it is on the day I am going.  I would also rather feel an environment, wait until my eyes, mind, and heart adjust to the surroundings, which is when I find you notice the really important elements.  I also think photography is about what you are responding to, what the image means, and what you are trying to comment on, than it is about one off images.  

Anyway, it was an interesting read.  I do not think gender predisposes you to one approach or another.  I think too often we reward the big prize before we see the bigger picture.  Again, it does not make me as a photographer or the my photographs any better or worse than someone else, it just makes me working in a way that I know I prefer.