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Photography takes an instant out of time, altering life by holding it still.

These people live again in print as intensely as when their images were captured on old dry plates of sixty years ago... I am walking in their alleys, standing in their rooms and sheds and workshops, looking in and out of their windows. Any they in turn seem to be aware of me.

When I'm ready to make a photograph, I think I quite obviously see in my minds eye something that is not literally there in the true meaning of the word. I'm interested in something which is built up from within, rather than just extracted from without.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces and record the qualities of nature and humanity which live or are latent in all things.

In my mind's eye, I visualize how a particular... sight and feeling will appear on a print. If it excites me, there is a good chance it will make a good photograph. It is an intuitive sense, an ability that comes from a lot of practice.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Because love is the meeting point of truth and magic. Truth, as in photography; magic, as in ballooning.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

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!

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration.

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.