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"At my Rolling Stones' tour, the camera was a protection. I used it in a Zen way."
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"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."

"In the decline of the day, near Kentucky river, as we ascended the brow of a small hill, a number of Indians rushed out of a thick cane-brake upon us, and made us prisoners."

"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."

"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."

"Within two hours of where I live, you have mountains and desert as location. I like the natural elements that abstract into light, texture, shape and shadow."

"He took twelve pictures that day.Within a few days he showed me the contact sheet. 'This one has the magic,' he said. When I look at it now, I never see me. I see us."

"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"

"The closer the source of light is to a subject, the broader the beams are."

"When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without."

"It's important to know that if you are dealing with shadows."
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"The pictures of my family were designed to be on a family wall, they were supposed to be together. It was supposed to copy my mother's wall in her house."

"My hope is that we continue to nurture the places that we love, but that we also look outside our immediate worlds."

"I wish that all of nature's magnificence, the emotion of the land, the living energy of place could be photographed."

"Sometimes I enjoy just photographing the surface because I think it can be as revealing as going to the heart of the matter."

"What I learned from Lennon was something that did stay with me my whole career, which is to be very straightforward. I actually love talking about taking pictures, and I think that helps everyone."

"When you are on assignment, film is the least expensive thing in a very practical sense. Your time, the person's time, turns out to be the most valuable thing."
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