It is tough being patient when you are more than a half million dollars in debt.

It is so much better to get the right exposure than to have to mess around later with Photoshop.

Pre-planning is essential. Research, research, research. If you are going to do a portrait, know as much as you can about the person beforehand. The web makes this very easy.

With the Internet, you can get lots of info in advance, but a local person who knows how to work the system is invaluable.

I fell in love with traveling and thought being a photographer would be an interesting way to travel and make a living.

Hot air balloons are terrific to shoot from, although they have become very expensive, as has most lodging and food in the Napa Valley.

The fact that a thirteen-year-old project still resonates and can still have a large exhibit with lots of newspaper, magazine and TV press shows the timelessness of the project.

I don't shoot many corporate or commercial jobs, but when you do, you had better have someone helping who has done it before.

My modus operandi after working for a decade as a self-funding freelancer, was to spend as little money as possible to get the job done, even if it was on someone else's nickel.

Everyone thinks it would be great to work for National Geographic. So did I.

The summer of 1966, I hitch-hiked alone for two months all over Europe instead of working on a farm in Spain. It was a big game to see how much I could see on $400. This got me hooked on traveling.

Every time you give your word, you’re putting your honor on the line.

Sometimes we care others more than they deserve!

The greatest battles are fought in the mind.

The return to solid values is always hard... Distress, panic, and hard times have marked our pathway in returning to solid values.

This restless world Is full of chances, which by habit's power To learn to bear is easier than to shun.

For many people, Google is the most important tool on the Web.

In the career of a prodigy there invariably comes a time when it is compelled to relinquish being very clever for a child, and has to enter the business of life in competition with adults.

You can't want to be happy, because that's too easy and too boring.

When you live your life through records, the records are a record of your life.

The only reason we die, is because we accept death as an inevitability.