Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.

The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.