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L , scape photography is the supreme test of the photographer – , often the supreme disappointment.

The photographer begins to feel big and bloated and so big he can’t walk through one of these doors because he gets a good byline; he gets notices all over the world and so forth; but they’re really – the important people are the people he photographs.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.

Photography helps people to see.

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

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

A photograph is usually looked at – seldom looked into.

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

The challenge for me has first been to see things as they are, whether a portrait, a city street, or a bouncing ball. In a word, I have tried to be objective.