~ Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment. ~
~ A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed. ~
~ My own eyes are no more than scouts on a preliminary search, for the camera's eye may entirely change my idea. ~
~ You've got to push yourself harder. You've got to start looking for pictures nobody else could take. You've got to take the tools you have and probe deeper. ~
~ One should really use the camera as though tomorrow you'd be stricken blind. ~
~ A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it? ~
~ Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts. ~
~ A room hung with pictures is a room hung with thoughts. ~
~ I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light. ~
~ There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept. ~
~ I think you have to have a real point of view that's your own. You have to tell it your way. And, I think that it's a mistake to shoot for a specific magazine's point of view because it's never going to be as good. You have to shoot for yourself and photograph the way you believe it. ~
~ Above all, it's hard learning to live with vivid mental images of scenes I cared for and failed to photograph. It is the edgy existence within me of these unmade images that is the only assurance that the best photographs are yet to be made. ~