How High Your Awareness Level Is Determines

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.

Twelve Significant Photographs In Any One Year Is A Good Crop.

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.

The Technique Of 35mm Photography Appears Simple. One Is Beguiled By The Quick Viewing And Operation, And By The Very Questionable Inclination To Make Many Pictures With The Hope That Some Will Be Good.

I Know The Importance Of Highly Trained Awareness Of The “moment” And The Immediate And Intuitive Response Of The Photographer. It Should Be Obvious To All That Photographers Whose Images Possess Character And Quality Have Attained Them Only By Continued Practice And Total Dedication To The Medium.