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

A photograph is just a tiny slice of a subject. A piece of them in a moment. It seems presumptuous to think you can get more than that.

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

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

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.

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 shoot a little bit, maybe two rolls, medium format, which is 20 pictures, and if it's not working, I change the position.