To visualize an image (in whole or in part) is to see clearly in the mind prior to exposure, a continuous projection from composing the image through the final print.

Photography is an investigation of both the outer and the inner worlds. The first experiences with the camera involve looking at the world beyond the lens, trusting the instrument will 'capture' something 'seen.' The terms shoot and take are not accidental; they represent an attitude of conquest and appropriation. Only when the photographer grows into perception and creative impulse does the term make define a condition of empathy between the external and the internal events.

The craft of photography is the key to good images.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

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.

Knowing what I know now, any photographer worth his salt could make some beautiful things with pinhole cameras.

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.