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

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

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

Since the recording process is instantaneous, and the nature of the image such that it cannot survive corrective handwork, it is obvious that the finished print must be created in full before the film is exposed.

A lifetime can well be spent correcting and improving one's own faults without bothering about others.

...the pepper is beginning to show signs of strain, and tonight should grace a salad. It has been suggested that I am a cannibal to eat my models.

I don't care if you make a print on a bath mat, just as long as it is a good print.