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.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

A photograph is not an accident - is a concept. It exists at, or before, the moment of exposure of the negative.

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

I knew my destiny when I first experienced Yosemite.

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