People who wouldn't think of taking a sieve to the well to draw water fail to see the folly in taking a camera to make a painting.

I see no reason for recording the obvious.

To see the Thing itself is essential: the quintessence revealed direct without the fog of impressionism... This then: to photograph a rock, have it look like a rock, but be more than a rock. Significant presentation - not interpretation.

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.

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

For photography is a way to capture the moment - not just any moment, but the important one, this one moment out of all time when your subject is revealed to the fullest - that moment of perfection which comes once and is not repeated.