I Have To Be As Much Diplomat

Another Picture I Hope To Be Remembered By Is This One Of The Drum Major Rehearsing At The University Of Michigan. It Was Early In This Morning, And I Saw A Little Boy Running After Him, All The Faculty Children In The Playing Field Ran After The Boy, And I Ran After Them. This Is A Completely Spontaneous, Unstaged Picture.

Never Boss People Around. It's More Important To Click With People Than To Click The Shutter.

It's Important To Understand It's Ok To Control The Subject. If Most Editorial Stories Were Photographed Just As They Are, Editors Would End Up Throwing Most In The Waste Basket. You Have To Work Hard At Making An Editorial Picture. You Need To Re-stage Things, Rearrange Things So That They Work For The Story, With Truth And Without Lying.

Retire? Retire From What? Life? I Will Only Retire When I Am Dead!

Today's Photographers Think Differently. Many Can't See Real Light Anymore. They Think Only In Terms Of Strobe - Sure, It All Looks Beautiful But It's Not Really Seeing. If You Have The Eyes To See It, The Nuances Of Light Are Already There On The Subject's Face. If Your Thinking Is Confined To Strobe Light Sources, Your Palette Becomes Very Mean - Which Is The Reason I Photograph Only In Available Light.