The photograph isolates and perpetuates a moment of time: an important and revealing moment, or an unimportant and meaningless one, depending upon the photographer's understanding of his subject and mastery of his process.

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

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.

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

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.

I find myself every so often looking at my ground glass as though the unrecorded image might escape me!

Why limit yourself to what your eyes see when you have an opportunity to extend your vision?