The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have … - John Sexton

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Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses, having streamers around their necks and a hat on their antlers. Because then you know they were enjoying themselves at a party when they were shot.

John Sexton

The greatest compliment that I know how to pay another photographer is to say, 'I never would have made that photograph myself. I'm sure glad you did. ' You hope along the way that maybe, once in a while, you do that for someone else.

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I took a workshop from him a few months after that. That experience changed my whole approach to photography. At that workshop in Yosemite in 1973 I decided I wanted to try and see if I could pursue this for myself, and I'm still trying.

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I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

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He was a very generous soul and was exceptionally dedicated to the medium of photography.

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When I'm about ready to press the cable release on the View camera, I've tried to anticipate some of the challenges I'm going to encounter in the darkroom.

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In my mind I needed a symbol of today's technology, and I realized that what I wanted to photograph was the Space Shuttle. And so that's where Places of Power came into being.

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