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

Black and white photography is truly quite a 'departure from reality', and the transition from one aspect of visual magic to another was not as complete as many imagine.

It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.

This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

My last word s that it all depends on what you visualize.

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.