These are beautiful days. Folks ask what I'm doing. I tell them I'm doing family.

It is important to understand what are you trying to capture with a camera. What you want to use this tool for. It helps to begin to search for and concentrate on thematic photography.

In general, we are sort of conditioned to see a different body type as acceptable and maybe look away when the other body type arrives.

Most of my images have been done in-studio, under very controlled lighting conditions. There have been a few that have shot in nature, but even then they were shot almost exclusively at night, and again, under controlled lighting conditions.

Spock is definitely one of my best friends. When I put on those ears, it's not like just another day. When I become Spock, that day becomes something special.

For me it's all about personal vision; is there something about a subject that uniquely speaks to me.

Years ago - in the 70s, for about a decade - I carried a camera every place I went. And I shot a lot of pictures that were still life and landscape, using available light.