For me photography has been a profession, an avocation. Now it has become a way of life.

I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.

Whenever I have found myself stuck in the ways I relate to things, I return to nature. It is my principal teacher, and I try to open my whole being to what it has to say.

A person is quite different from a tree or rock or stream. By introducing the nude into my pictures, I started perceiving all the things I was photographing in new ways. In contrast or opposition to each other, things became much more significant and interesting, revealing many more qualities than I had ever dreamed of knowing and expressing. By using the nude, I stopped thinking in terms of objects.

Mysteries lie all around us, even in the most familiar things, waiting only to be perceived.

Creativity is an ode to life. It is not a form of entertainment. It is a form of joy.

You can expand your reality by developing new ways of perceiving.