Why go now? That is the question people asked when I announced I was retiring. A combination of things made me feel it was all drawing to a natural end.

I'd very much like to create my own style as a photographer, even if it's just for myself.

We spent a lot of time on the beach when I was young so I'd also take pictures of seaweed and crabs.

The opening ceremony was good, although I missed it.

What it all boils down to for me is having the enthusiasm to do something for enjoyment and being stimulated by what's around you. That's what photography does for me.

In the last year my wife has noticed me struggling to get downstairs on a Sunday morning. I've two young children and football has been so good to me over the years I don't want to spoil it.

I've never put myself in the mindset that I'm actually any good at taking pictures, I just love to shoot things that catch my eye, whether it's landscapes or just my kids.

When you're walking onto a bus and trying to get there before the person in front of you, that's a different level of competition than playing in front of 80,000 people.

Ramires is involved in everything he does.

You need to be an adrenalin junkie when you travel with kids.

My wife Mariana is a good photographer too and, like me, she just picks up a camera and takes a picture when she sees something, rather than looking too deeply into it.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow, for tomorrow will worry about its own things. Sufficient for the day is its own trouble. Matthew 6:34

Miranda raised her eyebrows. Apparently she hadn't figured me for a country music fan. I liked her for that.

There's no question dolphins are smarter than humans as they play more.

Being in nature is inspiring. I grew up in rural Pennsylvania and spent countless hours of my youth wandering the woods in awe of the beauty that exists all around us.

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession.

In football, the good thing is things can change in a second.

Where the material ends, art begins.

Ozzie Smith just made another play that I've never seen anyone else make before, and I've seen him make it more often than anyone else ever has.

Now the fair goddess, Fortune, Fall deep in love with thee, and her great charms Misguide thy opposers' swords!