The photo-journalist and the photo-poet are both important. The problem is to separate the major objectives of the various groups and not to attribute qualities and intentions where they do not belong.

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

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

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.

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

Once destroyed, nature's beauty cannot be repurchased at any price

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.