When I have a camera, I’m really paying attention. To pluck the holiness of a moment from the chaos of everyday life, preserve it, and marvel at it—that’s what I’m trying to do.

I don’t want to just see something, just record an event. I want to behold. It’s about that fraction of a second when the shutter snaps open and the physical world reveals the metaphysical. 

Without a record of it, the moment is lost and I wonder if it was even real. I know I’ll forget that instant, that feeling. With a camera, I can make it last forever.