......so called “composition” becomes a personal thing, to be developed along with technique, as a personal way of seeing.

Art is based on order. The world is full of 'sloppy Bohemians' and their work betrays them.

The camera sees more than the eye, so why not make use of it?

An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

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

This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock.

Very often people looking at my pictures say, 'You must have had to wait a long time to get that cloud just right (or that shadow, or the light).' As a matter of fact, I almost never wait, that is, unless I can see that the thing will be right in a few minutes. But if I must wait an hour for the shadow to move, or the light to change, or the cow to graze in the other direction, then I put up my camera and go on, knowing that I am likely to find three subjects just as good in the same hour.