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

The next time you pick up a camera think of it not as an inflexible and automated robot, but as a flexible instrument which you must understand to properly use. An electronic and optical miracle creates nothing on its own! Whatever beauty and excitement it can represent exist in your mind and spirit to begin with.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

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

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.

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.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.