The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.