The Look

The trick is to a make picture that’s neither too saturated nor flat, neither too contrasty nor flat — just plain honest. It’s tougher to accomplish than one might think.

So many pictures we see sensationalize things, and I hope to do the opposite.

Sometimes we think of photography as going somewhere amazing with a camera, but in reality, it asks us to practice a process wherever we find ourselves.

It’s funny how we want a photo to be believable but rarely ask that of a pencil sketch.

Either we must make an exact image or distort the heck out of it, with no room in between.

This might sound strange, but sometimes a black-and-white image feels closer to what I saw.

A large-format photograph is a regular one in slow motion.

To debate about what’s good or bad in art is pointless — it’s impossible to skip what’s most sound.

With a regular camera, I may dart past what I was thinking and doing while taking a picture — the view camera corrects that.