Upon graduation Busch moved to Carmel, California where he worked as an assistant to Morley Baer.[4] He assisted Ansel Adams[5] on Portfolio VI washing prints and published his first portfolio in 1974-Portfolio I.He assisted his mentor, Al Weber on workshops throughout the Four Corners area. He moved to New York after marrying Marcia Chimberoff in Chicago in 1974. Busch took a job with Finlay Departments, a division of Seligman and Latz.