These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

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.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

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

It is the photographer, not the camera, that is the instrument.