When I First Went To 'national Geographic,'

A Very Big Part Of The Life Of A Photograph Is The Afterlife.

That's Who Comes To My Workshops. I Jokingly Tell My Students That The Class Could Be Called "your Photographs: Better."

There Are A Lot Of Ways To Be Expressive In Life, But I Wasn't Good At Some Of Them. Music, For Instance. I Was A Distinct Failure With The Cello. Eventually, My Parents Sold The Cello And Bought A Vacuum Cleaner. The Sound In Our Home Improved.

My Dad Had Been An Ardent Amateur Photographer, And He Taught Me To Compose A Photograph From The Back To The Front, And Then Populate The Picture.

For Spiritual Companions I Have Had The Many Artists Who Have Relied On Nature To Help Shape Their Imagination. And Their Most Elaborate Equipment Was A Deep Reverence For The World Through Which They Passed. Photographers Share Something With These Artists. We Seek Only To See And To Describe With Our Own Voices, And, Though We Are Seldom Heard As Soloists, We Cannot Photograph The World In Any Other Way.