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

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

A photograph is not an accident - it is a concept.

The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

There still is some opposition to it in some museums and art schools, but I think photography has really grown into a mature art form.

The whole world is, to me, very much "alive" - all the little growing things, even the rocks. I can't look at a swell bit of grass and earth, for instance, without feeling the essential life - the things going on - within them. The same goes for a mountain, or a bit of the ocean, or a magnificent piece of old wood.