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.

I want the stark beauty that a lens can so exactly render presented without interference of artistic effect.

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

...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.

Good composition is merely the strongest way of seeing.

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

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.