All I can do in my writing is to stimulate a certain amount of thought, clarify some technical facts and date my work. But when I preach sharpness, brilliancy, scale, etc., I am just mouthing words, because no words can really describe those terms and qualities it takes the actual print to say, “here it is.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

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.

I believe the approach of the artist and the approach of the environmentalist are fairly close in that both are, to a rather impressive degree, concerned with the affirmation of life.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.