My family was Jehovah's Witnesses, which is a really tough religion. It kind of deterred me from religion for a long time. They still practice, but I don't. But I always remained spiritual, and had a belief that there is a God. I'm trying to find my way, you know?

I stopped going to Kingdom Hall, the church, when I was 11 years old, so I was very young. They don't celebrate birthdays, you get no Christmas, so it's a very difficult religion for children to get into. And they do a lot of finger-pointing among the Jehovah's Witnesses.

I've always been a spiritual person who believed in a Higher Power. So, I've always had my 1-on-1 with God, even if I wasn't much of a religious person.

I rehearsed 50. I kind of stared at it a long time. I wasn't going to let it terrify me.

The rules, religion to religion that man set forth, made me shy away from religion and have my own one on one with God and cut out the middleman.

In the early days of picture-taking, the exposure shutter had to stay open for a long time, so you had to stay really still.