What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

Nature is so powerful, so strong. It takes you to a place within yourself.

Things happen in front of you. That's perhaps the most wonderful and mysterious aspect of photography.

I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed.

What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone.

People buy ideas, they don't buy photographs.

When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.