I know that I am one with beauty and that my comrades are one. Let our souls be mountains, Let our spirits be stars, Let our hearts be worlds.

To the vast majority of people a photograph is an image of something within their direct experience: a more-or-less factual reality. It is difficult for them to realize that the photograph can be the source of experience, as well as the reflection of spiritual awareness of the world and of self.

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.

Bad weather makes for good photography.

Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.

The skies and land are so enormous, and the detail so precise and exquisite that wherever you are you are isolated in a glowing world between the macro and the micro.

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