My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, or the camera's eye may entirely change my idea.

The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

In common with other artists the photographer wants his finished print to convey to others his own response to his subject. In the fulfillment of this aim, his greatest asset is the directness of the process he employs. But this advantage can only be retained if he simplifies his equipment and technic to the minimum necessary, and keeps his approach from from all formula, art-dogma, rules and taboos. Only then can he be free to put his photographic sight to use in discovering and revealing the nature of the world he lives in.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

Now, to consult the rules of composition before making a picture is a little like consulting the law of gravity before going for a walk.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.