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

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

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

Anything more than 500 yards from the car just isn't photogenic.

Photography to the amateur is recreation, to the professional it is work, and hard work too, no matter how pleasurable it my be.

It's hard not to tell the truth with a camera. Artists are particularly good at that.

Now one does not think during creative work: any more than one thinks when driving a car. One has a background of years — learning — unlearning— success — failure — dreaming — thinking — experience — back it goes — farther back than one's ancestors: all this, — then the moment of creation, the focussing of all into the moment. So I can make — "without thought" — fifteen carefully-considered negatives one every fifteen minutes, — given material with as many possibilities.