The light absorbed by the sensors of my camera, was it designated for something else? Do I depreciate Nature by taking so many pictures?

I have often thought that if photography were difficult in the true sense of the term - meaning that the creation of a simple photograph would entail as much time and effort as the production of a good watercolor or etching - there would be a vast improvement in total output. The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Ansel Adams: A Personal Credo, in American Annual of Photography, Vol. 58 (1944).

And that desire - the strong desire to take pictures - is important. It borders on a need, based on a habit: the habit of seeing. Whether working or not, photographers are looking, seeing, and thinking about what they see, a habit that is both a pleasure and a problem, for we seldom capture in a single photograph the full expression of what we see and feel. It is the hope that we might express ourselves fully - and the evidence that other photographers have done so - that keep us taking pictures.

Sam Abell: The Photographic Life, Rizzoli, 2002.

A view from Waimanalo Beach on the island of O'ahu.

Buying a Nikon doesn't make you a photographer. It makes you a Nikon owner. (author unknown)