Photography Was My Choice Of Weapons.

If You Don't Have Anything To Say, Your Photographs Aren't Going To Say Much.

Enthusiasm Is The Electricity Of Life. How Do You Get It? You Act Enthusiastic Until You Make It A Habit.

I Picked Up A Camera Because It Was My Choice Of Weapons Against What I Hated Most About The Universe: Racism, Intolerance, Poverty. I Could Have Just As Easily Picked Up A Knife Or A Gun, Like Many Of My Childhood Friends Did... Most Of Whom Were Murdered Or Put In Prison... But I Chose Not To Go That Way. I Felt That I Could Somehow Subdue These Evils By Doing Something Beautiful That People Recognize Me By, And Thus Make A Whole Different Life For Myself, Which Has Proved To Be So.

I've Been With Life Now For Seventeen Years And I Have Written Several Articles For Them And Will Be Doing More Writing And Do At Least Two Assignments A Year Besides My Writing.

I Think Maybe The Rural Influence In My Life Helped Me In A Sense, Of Knowing How To Get Close To People And Talk To Them And Get My Work Done.