Technology has eliminated the basement darkroom and the whole notion of photography as an intense labor of love for obsessives and replaced them with a sense of immediacy and instant gratification.

Our pictures are our footprints. It’s the best way to tell people we were here.

Don’t pack up your camera until you’ve left the location.

Always remember to make room to shoot what you love. It's the only way to keep your heart beating as a photographer.

Unpredictability. Accidents. Not good when you’re engaging in, say, brain surgery, but when lighting...wonderful!

You’ve gotta taste the light, like my friend and fellow shooter Chip Maury says. And when you see light like this, trust me, it’s like a strawberry sundae with sprinkles.

The most important piece of equipment in your bag is your attitude

If you're not having fun, your pictures will reflect that.

A career in photography is a journey without a destination.

If you view your life as a piece of fabric or a tapestry, the photography is the stitching. It keeps everything together.

John Loengard, the picture editor at Life, always used to tell me, ”If you want something to look interesting, don’t light all of it.

I think I’ll stay in pieces. I can shift them, rearrange, depending on the day, depending on what I need to be. I can change on a whim and be so many different girls and none of them has to be me.

The hardest thing is to do something which is close to nothing because it is demanding all of you.

You can have all the wine and dragons that my money can buy. That’s what the old woman told me, and I listened.

A Dream bring us to the most Beautiful Places.

As Christ begins to live in us, everything begins to change about us.

You can't make a great musician or a great photographer if the magic isn't there.

I enjoy the independence of single-handling a boat. I like controlling the elements, making the wind and the waves and the water work for me.

it is impossible to attack the problem of poverty in the industrialized or the developing world effectively unless the extent to which poverty is a women's problem is recognized.

Hatred is public demonstration of inferiority complex.

Prayer is - loving conversation with the One who has invited us into His embrace.