My Mountaineering Skills Are Not Important To

You Only Get One Sunrise And One Sunset A Day, And You Only Get So Many Days On The Planet. A Good Photographer Does The Math And Doesn't Waste Either.

At The Heart Of All Photography Is An Urge To Express Our Deepest Personal Feelings - To Reveal Our Inner, Hidden Selves, To Unlock The Artist. Those Of Us Who Become Photographers Are Never Satisfied With Just Looking At Someone Else's Expression Of Something That Is Dear To Us. We Must Produce Our Own Images, Instead Of Buying Postcards And Photo Books. We Seek To Make Our Own Statements Of Individuality.

I Like To Feel That All My Best Photographs Had Strong Personal Visions And That A Photograph That Doesn't Have A Personal Vision Or Doesn't Communicate Emotion Fails.

When The Light Is Right And Everything Is Working For Me, I Feel As Tense As When Making A Difficult Maneuver High On A Mountain. A Minute - And Sometimes Mere Seconds - Can Make The Difference Between A Superb Image And A Mundane One.

My First Thought Is Always Of Light.