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.

Arguments against photography ever being considered a fine art are: the element of chance which enters in, — finding things ready-made for a machine to record, and of course the mechanics of the medium. I say that chance enters into all branches of art.

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

"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"."

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

A photograph has no value unless it looks exactly like a photograph and nothing else.

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