When I started to be published I thought about Margaret Bourke-White and the whole journalistic approach to things. I believed I was supposed to catch life going by me - that I wasn't to alter it or tamper with it - that I was just to watch what was going on and report it as best I could. This shoot with John was different. I got involved, and I realized that you can't help but be touched by what goes on in front of you. I no longer believe that there is such a thing as objectivity.

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.

The camera makes you forget you're there. It's not like you are hiding but you forget, you are just looking so much.

When I take a picture I take 10 percent of what I see.

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

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

If it makes you cry, it goes in the show.