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.

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

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.

Before digital, I spent thirty years shooting color transparencies, which are very unforgiving of exposure. A half stop can make or break a good photo on slide film.

Holding my hands in his, David kissed my knuckles before he swore to me, “I will love every day of the rest of my life.

Sweat, scalded meat, puke, blood, smoke and a dozen kinds of bad ale and wine: the bouquet of civilized nightlife

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts, for the most trivial of acts. An average man acts out his thoughts, and never takes responsibility for what he does.

Death is the great gamer with a sleeve of tricks.

Love is like a butterfly, a rare and gentle thing.

The Telephone will democratize hierarchic relations.

I could fully express myself in lacrosse.

I've wondered why the famous congregate with each other. Perhaps it's to assure each other that they really are as important as they think they are.

...he will go to his grave feeling cheated, never realizing that there isn't much difference between one woman and the other, that it is the loving that creates the difference.

In theater, there's a lot of work to do to build the characters. It's a great experience.