Clouds, torsos, shells, peppers, trees, rocks, smoke stacks, are but interdependent, interrelated parts of a whole, which is life.

If I have any 'message' worth giving to a beginner it is that there are no short cuts in photography.

When a photographer masters the tools and processes of the art, then the quality of the work is only limited by his creative vision.

I always work better when I do not reason, when no question of right or wrong enter in,-when my pulse quickens to the form before me without hesitation nor calculation.

I start with no preconceived idea - discovery excites me to focus - then rediscovery through the lens - final form of presentation seen on ground glass, the finished print previsioned completely in every detail of texture, movement, proportion, before exposure - the shutter's release automatically and finally fixes my conception, allowing no after manipulation - the ultimate end, the print, is but a duplication of all that I saw and felt through my camera.

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

Anything that excites me for any reason, I will photograph; not searching for unusual subject matter, but making the commonplace unusual.