Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

All the good pictures that came so easily now make the next set of pictures virtually impossible in your mind.

Like all photographers, I depend on serendipity, and when you're photographing children there's often an abundance of it. I would have an idea of what a photograph would look like and then something would happen - a dog might lumber in and become a critical element. I pray for what might be referred to as the angel of chance.

Photographs open doors into the past, but they also alloq a look into the future

What is truth in photography? It can be told in a hundred different ways. Every thirtieth of a second when the shutter snaps, its capturing a different piece of information.

There is something about this process, and about the whole 8 x 10 [camera] business, that takes it out of the arena of the snapshot, even though, of course, I'm always desperate for that feeling. I wanted those family pictures to look effortless. I wanted them to look like snapshots. And some of them did.