If I want a small take-everywhere camera, I prefer my iPhone 5, which has colors and tonal range superior to any DSLR or compact digital camera I've ever used at their default settings.

You need to learn to see and compose. The more time you waste worrying about your equipment the less time you'll have to put into creating great images. Worry about your images, not your equipment.

Photography is the power of observation, not the application of technology.

No matter how advanced your camera you still need to be responsible for getting it to the right place at the right time and pointing it in the right direction to get the photo you want.

The camera's only job is to get out of the way of making photographs.

Maybe because it's entirely an artist's eye, patience and skill that makes an image and not his tools.

People live in different worlds. There's a rich world, there's a poor world, and there's an extremely poor. The one you dwell is determined by the outcome of your sacrifice.

I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.

I have always had a sense that we are all pretty much alone in life, particularly in adolescence.

Each destination you reach only opens out into wider horizons, new and undiscovered countries for you to explore.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Honesty is a big deal, and when your honest everything will fall into place.

Fun can be the dessert of our lives but never its main course.

Pain and trials are almost constant companions, but never enemies. They drive me into His sovereign arms. There He takes my disappointments and works everything together for good.

Infinity is a dreadfully poor place. They can never manage to make ends meet.

My blogging life is basically goalless. I like the zen nature of that, and paradoxically, it improves results.