I became enamored with photography when I was about 13 or 14 years old. I've been at it ever since. I studied seriously in the '70s.

I turned off the talking politicos. Too much jabbering at each other. Not enough care about humans.

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

Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them.

I consider myself more spiritual than religious.

That's the most difficult issue for me - to find a subject that holds my interest long enough that I'm prepared to go to work and spend the time and energy to shoot the subject.

If you are walking down the street, camera in your hand, loaded and ready to shoot. You see a person falling from a high building, either having fallen or jumped. That person is falling through space. You don't shoot that photograph unless the theme you are working on has to do with the effects of space on the human figure. If you simply photograph that event because it is an event that is happening, you're doing photojournalism.