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

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Today, we must realize that nature is revealed in the simplest meadow, wood lot, marsh, stream, or tidepool, as well as in the remote grandeur of our parks and wilderness areas.

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.

We all move on the fringes of eternity and are sometimes granted vistas through fabric of illusion.

The technique of 35mm photography appears simple. One is beguiled by the quick viewing and operation, and by the very questionable inclination to make many pictures with the hope that some will be good.

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