With A Camera, One Has To Love

Do Not Look For Signs. Do Not Look For Experiences. Do Not Be So Complicated. Become Like A Child. See Everything With Awe.

Change No One. Change Nothing. React To No One, React To Nothing. Do Not Live In The Past And Do Not, Worry About The Future. Stay In The Eternal Now, Where All Is Well. After All You Are Me And I Am You. There's No Difference. Do Not React To The World. Do Not Even React To Your Own Body. Do Not Even React To Your Own Thoughts. Learn To Become The Witness. Learn To Be Quiet.

Whatever Power There Is In The Urban Pictures Is Bound To The Closeness With Which They Skirt Banality. For A Shot To Be Good — Suggestive Of More Than Just What It Is — It Has To Come Perilously Near Being Bad, Just A View Of Stuff.

At Our Best And Most Fortunate We Make Pictures Because Of What Stands Before Our Camera, To Honor What Is Greater And More Interesting Than We Are. We Never Accomplish This Perfectly, Though In Return We Are Given Something Perfect--a Sense Of Inclusion. Our Subject Thus Redefines Us, And Is Part Of The Biography By Which We Want To Be Known.

I Thought I Was Taking Pictures Of Things That I Hated. But There Was Something About These Pictures. They Were Unexpectedly, Disconcertingly Glorious.