The sheer ease with which we can produce a superficial image often leads to creative disaster.
I usually have an immediate recognition of the potential image, and I have found that too much concern about matters such as conventional composition may take the edge off the first inclusive reaction.
The ‘machine-gun’ approach to photography – by which many negatives are made with the hope that one will be good – is fatal to serious results.
Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.
It is my intention to present – through the medium of photography – intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.
Life is your art. An open, aware heart is your camera. A oneness with your world is your film. Your bright eyes and easy smile is your museum.
Sometimes I do get to places just when God’s ready to have somebody click the shutter.
The negative is comparable to the composer’s score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Notebook. No photographer should be without one!
I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express the soul, perhaps a photograph can!
A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.
Millions of men have lived to fight, build palaces and boundaries, shape destinies and societies; but the compelling force of all times has been the force of originality and creation profoundly affecting the roots of human spirit.
Image quality is not the product of a machine, but of the person who directs the machine, and there are no limits to imagination and expression.
The craft of photography is the key to good images.
The only things in my life that compatibly exists with this grand universe are the creative works of the human spirit.
Art is both the taking and giving of beauty, the turning out to the light of the inner folds of the awareness of the spirit.
Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.
The quality of place, the reaction to immediate contact with earth and growing things that have a fugal relationship with mountains and sky, is essential to the integrity of our existence on this planet.
Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.
I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.