Photography Is An Austere And Blazing Poetry

I Have Often Had A Retrospective Vision Where Everything In My Past Life Seems To Fall With Significance Into Logical Sequence. Intuition, Suspicion, Or Confidence In New Ventures; There Is A Strange Strain Within Me When Advantage Is Not Taken Of Some Situation, The Immediacy Of Recognition Of The Rightness Or Wrongness Of A Mood, A Response, A Decision - They Are So Often Valid That I Am Increasingly Convinced That We Have Yet To Grasp The Reality Of Existence.

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.

Landscape Photography Is The Supreme Test Of The Photographer - And Often The Supreme Disappointment.

The Negative Is Comparable To The Composer's Score And The Print To Its Performance. Each Performance Differs In Subtle Ways.

A Photograph Is Not An Accident - Is A Concept. It Exists At, Or Before, The Moment Of Exposure Of The Negative.