Most people, especially successful people, are hard-working. They want to participate. They want to do things well.

In a portrait, you have room to have a point of view. The image may not be literally what's going on, but it's representative.

The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

I fight to take a good photograph every single time.

I feel a responsibility to my backyard. I want it to be taken care of and protected.

There must be a reason why photographers are not very good at verbal communication. I think we get lazy.

What I am interested in now is the landscape. Pictures without people. I wouldn't be surprised if eventually there are no people in my pictures. It is so emotional.