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.

No matter how sophisticated you may be, a large granite mountain cannot be denied - it speaks in silence to the very core of your being.

I know some photographs that are extraodrinary in their power and conviction, but it is difficult in photography to overcome the superficial power or subject; the concept and statement must be quite convincing in themselves to win over a dramatic and compelling subject situation.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

The best picture is around the corner. Like prosperity.

I do not think there is any question of photography being an art form!