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

Some photographers take reality... and impose the domination of their own thought and spirit. Others come before reality more tenderly and a photograph to them is an instrument of love and revelation.

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

Myths and creeds are heroic struggles to comprehend the truth in the world.

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

I can't verbalize the internal meaning of pictures whatsoever. Some of my friends can at very mystical levels, but I prefer to say that, if I feel something strongly, I would make a photograph, that would be the equivalent of what I saw and felt.

The term accessories has come to include a host of photographic gadgets of questionable value.