This profession [photography] is deserving of attention and respect equal to that accorded painting, literature, music and architecture.

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.

It is increasingly clear to me that my art relates more and more to a sublimation of my closeness to the natural world, it's events, light itself, and the positive it is a personal expression based on observation and reaction, that I am not able to define except in terms of the work itself.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty; the turning out to the light the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit. It is the recreation on another plane of the realities of the world; the tragic and wonderful realities of earth and men, and of all the inter-relations of these.

I’m interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!