I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

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

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.