I Want To Be A Mouse In

My Style Hasn't Changed Much In All These Sixty Years. I Still Use, Most Of The Time, Existing Light And Try Not To Push People Around. I Have To Be As Much A Diplomat As A Photographer. People Don't Often Take Me Seriously Because I Carry So Little Equipment And Make So Little Fuss... I Never Carried A Lot Of Equipment. My Motto Has Always Been, "keep It Simple".

I Will Be Remembered When I'm In Heaven. People Won't Remember My Name, But They Will Know The Photographer Who Did That Picture Of That Nurse Being Kissed By The Sailor At The End Of World War Ii. Everybody Remembers That.

I Dream That Someday The Step Between My Mind And My Finger Will No Longer Be Needed. And That Simply By Blinking My Eyes, I Shall Make Pictures. Then, I Think, I Shall Really Have Become A Photographer.

I Enjoy Traveling And Recording Far-away Places And People With My Camera. But I Also Find It Wonderfully Rewarding To See What I Can Discover Outside My Own Window. You Only Need To Study The Scene With The Eyes Of A Photographer.

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.