How high your awareness level is determines how much meaning you get from your world. Photography can teach you to improve your awareness level.

I hope that my work will encourage self expression in others and stimulate the search for beauty and creative excitement in the great world around us.

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

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

I know the importance of highly trained awareness of the “moment” and the immediate and intuitive response of the photographer. It should be obvious to all that photographers whose images possess character and quality have attained them only by continued practice and total dedication to the medium.

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

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.