It is the gift of seeing the life around them clearly and vividly, as something that is exciting in its own right. It is an innate gift, varying in intensity with the individual's temperament and environment.
All my life I've taken photographs of people who are completely at peace being what they were in the situations I photographed them in.
Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
There isn't an aspect of book creation I don't enjoy, and there has always been a book in my life to dream about or work on.
There are still so many places on our planet that remain unexplored. I'd love to one day peel back the mystery and understand them.
I fell in love with the darkroom, and that was part of being a photographer at the time. The darkroom was unbelievably sexy. I would spend all night in the darkroom.
I love storytelling, I love being a visual person, and it just made perfect sense to be an underwater photographer and explore the ocean and work with scientists.
I don't see many people as heroes and, though I love sport, I believe athletes rarely deserve that praise.
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.
Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk.
I never stopped photographing. There were a couple of years when I didn't have a darkroom, but that didn't stop me from photographing.
I can get obsessed by anything if I look at it long enough. That's the curse of being a photographer.
I grew up in suburban New Jersey in a transitional area that was surrounded by farmland that wasn't being cultivated.
Glacial pace is actually an incorrect concept. The glaciers move a lot faster and they react a lot faster than people imagine.
I'm an amateur photographer, apart from being a professional one, and I think maybe my amateur pictures are the better ones.
I'm not a serious photographer like many of my contemporaries. That is to say, I am serious about not being serious.
Photography is pretty simple stuff. You just react to what you see, and take many, many pictures.
I am not interested in shooting new things - I am interested to see things new.
Bored with obvious reality, I find my fascination in transforming it into a subjective point of view.
Most whale photos you see show whales in this beautiful blue water - it's almost like space.
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
