Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

Never ever say the word shoot when you are taking a picture with a camera because a camera is not a violent weapon.

If you can't make the image bigger or more important than what you see, then don't push the button

Often I have struggled for days to get the image of the photograph to overlap the spirit I see. It is an awesome responsibility, and a lonely one.

I always said 'yes' to everything.

The ground we walk on, the plants and creatures, the clouds above constantly dissolving into new formations - each gift of nature possessing its own radiant energy, bound together by cosmic harmony.

Each time I make a photograph I celebrate the life I love and the beauty I know and the happiness I have experienced. All my photographs are made like that responding to my intuition... After all these years, I am still motivated by the radiance that light creates when it transforms an object into something magical. What the eye sees is an illusion of what is real. The black-and-white image is yet another transformation. What exactly exists, we may never know.