John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

I can't tell you how many pictures I've missed just 'cause I've been so hell bent on getting the shot I think I want.

The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

Seems Google management figured out it is cheaper, happier and more productive to take care of their employees and create a positive work environment than to burn them to a crisp, make them afraid of the future, and send them off into the highways and byways of California in search of a Taco Bell for lunch.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

No matter how much crap you gotta plow through to stay alive as a photographer, no matter how many bad assignments, bad days, bad clients, snotty subjects, obnoxious handlers, wigged-out art directors, technical disasters, failures of the mind, body, and will, all the shouldas, couldas, and wouldas that befuddle our brains and creep into our dreams, always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.