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

Yosemite Valley, to me, is always a sunrise, a glitter of green and golden wonder in a vast edifice of stone and space.

Both the grand and the intimate aspects of nature can be revealed in the expressive photograph. Both can stir enduring affirmations and discoveries, and can surely help the spectator in his search for identification with the vast world of natural beauty and wonder surrounding him.

I believe photography is a tool to express our positive assessment of the world. A tool to acquire ultimate happiness and belief.

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

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.

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.