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

I was scared to do anything in the studio because it felt so claustrophobic. I wanted to be somewhere where things could happen and the subject wasn't just looking back at you.

All dancers are, by and large, a photographer's dream. They communicate with their bodies and they are trained to be completely responsive to a collaborative situation.

My lens of choice was always the 35 mm. It was more environmental. You can't come in closer with the 35 mm.

One doesn't stop seeing. One doesn't stop framing. It doesn't turn off and turn on. It's on all the time.

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

I've created a vocabulary of different styles. I draw from many different ways to take a picture. Sometimes I go back to reportage, to journalism.