It's one thing to make a picture of what a person looks like, it's another thing to make a portrait of who they are.

At the root of creativity is an impulse to understand, to make sense of random and often unrelated details. For me, photography provides an intersection of time, space, light, and emotional stance. One needs to be still enough, observant enough, and aware enough to recognize the life of the materials, to be able to 'hear through the eyes'.

Photography is not easy. You know it takes a painter or a sculpture or a musician years to perfect their technique. Then they're free to make an expression in a matter of moments. It takes moments for a photographer to perfect his technique. And then it takes years for him to make it into something that is truly creative and worthwhile.

Can you keep your balance? Can you see what and where you are at any given moment?

Keep alive the fact that a mystery has come into existence and that a physical being serves as a house for this mystery.

Photography is a medium, a language, through which I might come to experience directly, live more closely with, the interaction between myself and nature.

... the effort, diligence, and care required in practicing must be quickly suspended when pressure coming from anxiety or a desire for fast results causes them to degenerate.

Seek freedom within action.

The influence of mystery is the greatest influence.

I work to attain a 'state of heart', a gentle space offering inspirational substance that could purify one's vision. Photography, like music, must be born in the unmanifest world of spirit.

We always point the lens both outward and inward.

All that I have achieved are these dreams locked in silver.

Photography's potential as a great image-maker and communicator is really no different from the same potential in the best poetry where familiar, everyday words, placed within a special context, can soar above the intellect and touch subtle reality in a unique way.