Everything is so superb and breathtaking. I am creeping forward on my belly like they do in war movies.

These are characters in a fairy tale for grown-ups. Wouldn't it be lovely? Yes.

I mean, it's very subtle and a little embarrassing to me, but I really believe there are things which nobody would see unless I photographed them.

Everybody has that thing where they need to look one way but they come out looking another way and that's what people observe.

Nothing is ever the same as they said it was. It's what I've never seen before that I recognize.

I used to have this notion when I was a kid that the minute you said anything, it was no longer true. Of course it would have driven me crazy very rapidly if I hadn't dropped it, but there's something similar in what I'm trying to say. That once it's been done, you want to go someplace else. There's just some sense of straining.

What moves me about...what's called technique...is that it comes from some mysterious deep place. I mean it can have something to do with the paper and the developer and all that stuff, but it comes mostly from some very deep choices somebody has made that take a long time and keep haunting them.