And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they're easier to use, but creating great images isn't about the tools.

It's equally hard and labor intensive to create an image on the computer as it is in a darkroom. Believe me.

And young people who are learning digital skills discover that the real challenge is coming up with an image that resonates, first of all, with your self and hopefully, with an audience. They can learn all these new techniques and think that they're easier to use, but creating great images isn't about the tools.

My creative process begins when I get out with the camera and interact with the world. A camera is truly a license to explore. There are no uninteresting things. There are just uninterested people.

I've learned over the years that when you get a clue to another possibility to follow it through.

It is the illusion of knowledge, not ignorance, that keeps one from growing.

I think of my photographs as being obviously symbolic, but not symbolically obvious.