Be gentle and tolerant. Intimacy will grow, but will take time and cannot be rushed. If all goes well, soon you will become more familiar with each other, and handling will forge awkward fumbling and fondling into more satisfying and productive caresses and eventually into a comfortable working partnership. At this stage you will be ready to accompany your new camera into the world.

I talk a lot about photography. It's cheap becuase my supply always exceeds demand.

Photographers, like kids, should be seen and not heard.

If you are intent on drawing or painting on your prints, you must first learn to draw and paint at least as well as you photograph.

I start a lot of photo projects but never seem to. . . .

Predators and prey always coexist. That's why we have galleries as well as photographers.

...photographers who carry 60 pounds of equipment up a hill to photograph a view are not suffering enough, although their whining causes enough suffering among their listeners. No, if they really expect us to respect their search for enlightenment and artistic expression, in [the] future they will drag the equipment up the hill by their genitals and take the view with a tripod leg stuck through their foot.