You can't just turn on when something happens, you have to be turned on all the time. Then things happen.

You have to have a lot of 'overage' so that your failures aren't the only thing you come home with. You've got to have a lot of things that were magnificent failures, but you want some magnificent successes.

I take pictures, and they are there for the taking. I'll tell you a quote that I have always thought about. Arthur Miller said, I try to create the poem from the evidence.

You must be open to what otherwise may seem to be a detriment to your 'plans'.

You are responsible for every part of your image, even the parts you’re not interested in.

I try not to tell students where to shoot, when to shoot, or what to shoot. I feel finding the picture is the most important part of being a photographer. The actual shooting is of lesser importance.

We don't experience light, color, and gesture in a vacuum. We experience it in contexts.