I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

Pictures you have taken have an influence on those that you are going to make. That's life!

There is a considerable amount of manipulation in the printmaking from the straight photograph to the finished print. If I do my job correctly that shouldn't be visible at all, it should be transparent.

And the camera position, the organization, looking for repeating forms, shapes, trying to set up a visual rhythm seemed to come very natural. All of a sudden I was in a forest of aluminum and steel rather than a forest that we might think of in a traditional sense.

I've never seen a surface that I think is more seductive in image making.

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

Whatever it takes to get the image to reach that level is what that photographer needs to do.