An excellent conception can be quite obscured by faulty technical execution or clarified by faultless technique.

I see my finished platinum print (in the viewfinder) in all its desired qualities, before my exposure.

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

...through this photographic eye you will be able to look out on a new light-world, a world for the most part uncharted and unexplored, a world that lies waiting to be discovered and revealed.

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

...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 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.