You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

My first thought is always of light.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.