There are no forms in nature. Nature is a vast, chaotic collection of shapes. You as an artist create configurations out of chaos. You make a formal statement where there was none to begin with. All art is a combination of an external event and an internal event… I make a photograph to give you the equivalent of what I felt. Equivalent is still the best word.

I am always surprised when I see several cameras, a gaggle on lenses, filters, meters, et cetera, rattling around in a soft bag with a complement of refuse and dust. Sometimes the professional is the worst offender!

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

I believe in beauty. I believe in stones and water, air and soil, people and their future and their fate.

The (photographic) negative is the equivalent of the composers score and the print is the equivalent of the conductors performance.

We were in the shadow of the mountains, the light was cool and quiet and no wind was stirring. The aspen trunks were slightly greenish and the leaves were a vibrant yellow.

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