The Big Switch
"I didn't want to have anything to do with digital. I was used to film. I don't like to change anything. I hate learning new equipment. My transformation to digital was due to, one, I didn't like what happened to Kodachrome—it changed; Kodak said they had to respond to the EPA. Two, I didn't like any of the replacements for it. And three, Sam Garcia [Nikon professional markets tech rep] said, as he forced a D1 camera into my hands, 'You're going to like this. Trust me.'

"From that day 'til now I shot three rolls of film. So my change has been complete. I'm delighted in every way shooting digital, and at the same time I hate the entire thing because I don't have a finished product after I shoot it, in the sense of a slide or a print." 

Techniques
"I check the back of the camera, but not while I'm shooting. Here's the thing: I don't care who you talk to, any photographer, if he's honest, no matter how long he's been in the business, no matter how good he is technically, he's worried only about one thing: exposure. We know what we're doing, what we want, but we don't know if we can get it. And digital makes it a lot easier. You look at the back and you say, 'I'm not screwing up.' I see what I'm getting. So in one way you don't shoot more, but in another way you do because you can move on from here and do better.

"But I bracket all the time anyway, so everyone tells me I'm crazy, but then I'm quite eccentric in the way I approach everything. I'm bracketing to see the different looks...I want to see what it looks like a little lighter or darker. Somebody says you can do that in the computer, but that's ten seconds longer at the computer than I want to spend.

"Manipulating images? I have no idea how to do any of that. The people who work for me, I tell them, 'I don't want you to manipulate for me.'

"If I crop a picture of any kind in any way, I suffer the agonies of the damned. The cropping and manipulation of my pictures is totally minuscule. It's the way I look at the game. I'm looking at the game to capture it the way it is.

"A strange thing has happened, though, with the D3 and new sensors and all that quality: I sometimes think that I'm going to do a whole series called Croppings, because I can now crop and not lose any quality at all, and the changes I like. But I haven't done it yet. When you see a series called Croppings, you'll know."