You don't take a picture, you make a picture.

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

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.

If you have enough craft, you've done your homework and you're practiced. You can then make the photograph you desire.

To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.

It is easy to take a photograph, but it is harder to make a masterpiece in photography than in any other art medium.