This is the gift of the landscape photograph, that the heart finds a place to stand.

The challenge of photography is to show the thing photographed so that our feelings are awakened and hidden aspects are revealed to us

All important pictures embody something that we do not yet understand.

I want my photographs to say: "Look-there's this thing you haven't seen that you should see."

As a good picture would come, I would never know exactly what I had done. When you did see it, it would strike you as a great surprise - who did that? How did it happen? Being surprised by your own work makes you both less serious and have serious reverence.

What's great is that the picture is already taken before it goes public. It's in secret. The trust that develops from such a habit engenders risk, and you realise you're not as vulnerable as you thought. Once you become comfortable with being more truthful about who you are, the easier it is, the prouder you become. That's the way it unfolded for us.

The authentic thing is to follow your heart, your instincts, your emotions. If you located yourself in an idea, your life would be lived very sadly.