Typically I see it with photographers who go to a place like India or Nepal, and everything's so colorful and exotic and they think, therefore, a picture's been taken.

The neatest part of this book I'm working on - to me - are the pictures that show the process... Because photographers... think things through and... it isn't luck, and it isn't random and it isn't accidental. It isn't.

There's a great quote about Virginia Woolf, she had the same spiritual stake in her diaries as she had in her writing.

What I'm interested in is modern American history. I'm taken with the changes that have occurred in America in my lifetime.

I'm very involved in photographing America now, so I don't think of faraway places, as I did when I was young.

It actually has transcended my career at the Geographic, so that when my career there ended, I had momentum as a teacher, and a belief in photographic education at the workshop level.

The longer we lived with it the more we wanted something less about process and more about life.