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

The fact is that relatively few photographers ever master their medium. Instead they allow the medium to master them and go on an endless squirrel cage chase from new lens to new paper to new developer to new gadget, never staying with one piece of equipment long enough to learn its full capacities, becoming lost in a maze of technical information that is of little or no use since they don't know what to do with it.

To compose a subject well means no more than to see and present it in the strongest manner possible.

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.

"Only with effort can the camera be forced to lie: basically it is an honest medium: so the photographer is much more likely to approach nature in a spirit of inquiry, of communion, instead of with the saucy swagger of self-dubbed "artists"."

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

My work is never intellectual. I never make a negative unless emotionally moved by my subject.