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

It is just as important to bring people the evidence of the beauty of the world of nature and of man as it is to give them a document of ugliness, squalor, and despair.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

The artist and the photographer seek the mysteries and the adventure of experience in nature.

Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.

As the fisherman depends upon the rivers, lakes and seas and the farmer upon the land for his existence, so does mankind in general depend upon the beauty of the world about him for his spiritual and emotional existence.

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.