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

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter.

As a young person, and I know it’s hard to believe that I was shy, but you could take your camera, and it would take you to places: it was like having a friend, like having someone to go out with and look at the world. I would do things with a camera I wouldn’t do normally if I was just by myself.

My early childhood equipped me really well for my portrait work: The quick encounter, where you are not going to know the subject for very long. These days I am much more comfortable with the fifteen minute relationship, than I am with a life long relationship.

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

Everyone keeps asking you for pictures, and after a while you get tired of that. I always say, They are in the archives.