The difference between the casual impression and the intensified image is about as great as that separating the average business letter from a poem. If you choose your subject selectively—intuitively—the camera can write poetry.

I like the simple things. I don't know why. I'm that way. I came from a simple place.

I think I came alive when I started photography.

To be a photographer, one must photograph. No amount of book learning, no checklist of seminars attended, can substitute for the simple act of making pictures.

I do believe strongly in photography and hope by following it intuitively that when the photographs are looked at they will touch the spirit in people.

Every time I talked about making a picture I didn't do it. I had already done it - talking about it! I quit talking.

It's a question of methods. Everybody wants results, but nobody wants to do what they have to do to get them done.