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

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

"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"."

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

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.

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

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.