For the sake of my writing I try to stay focused for as long as I can where I’m at. I can look at something once and write about what I see. But if I look at it again and again and hear it and feel it and smell it and wait to see what it does and how it reacts to me being there and experiencing it—all this can only be gotten from stopping and staying put for a little while.

You’ve got to let it work its whole self out otherwise you only end up describing one point on the surface rather than the whole shape. You’ve got to stick around to get all the other points like pieces of a puzzle until the whole image is displayed. Otherwise your reader will only have one thing to go off of and it’s more likely that their subjectivity will show it to them as something different instead of what you were trying to describe objectively. On the other hand, if you can give them more points on the surface, more data points, then your description can trend towards objectivity with less of a chance of your reader guessing wrong.