The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

If you are engaging rationality, you are already engaging a place that makes you unavailable. Only when I recognize that inspiration has announced itself to my availability will I then say I need to use my mind to calculate exposure, my emotions to position myself and arrange a configuration of shapes that need to come into being, my body to put it all in place because we have been given a message and it has come through inspiration through being available.'

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.

The key is to not let the camera, which depicts nature in so much detail, reveal just what the eye picks up, but what the heart picks up as well.