We could teach photography as a way to make a living, and best of all, somehow to get students to experience for themselves photography as a way of life.

Different levels of photography require different levels of understanding and skill. A "press the button, let George do the rest" photographer needs little or no technical knowledge of photography. A zone system photographer takes more responsibility. He visualizes before he presses the button, and afterwards calibrates for predictable print values.

The development of a love of medium and a responsibility for one's own pictures is an overall goal.

Often while traveling with a camera we arrive just as the sun slips over the horizon of a moment, too late to expose film, only time enough to expose our hearts.

It is curious that I always want to group things, a series of sonnets, a series of photographs; whatever rationalizations appear, they originate in urges that are rarely satisfied with single images.

To engage a sequence, we keep in mind the photographs on either side of the one in our eye.

Reaching a 'creative' state of mind thru positive action is considered preferable to waiting for 'inspiration'.