. . . I found my job through life to be most interesting. Artists - painters, I mean - tell us that photography is not a fine art. Cut out the word 'fine' and art remains. Certainly mechanical means have to be used up to a point, and many amateurs believe that when equipped with a nice camera and lens nothing else is necessary. The 'button' does the rest. Believe me it is the man or the woman behind the instrument that matters. What about composition and lights and shades, especially in the production of the beauties of nature? Search for the right point of view. The movement of a few yards to the right or left may add greatly to the value of the result. If taken seriously it is, indeed, an interesting hobby - and something more. Look at the great interest which the cinema affords to old and young - and all the result of photography. Studio potrature - the portraying of adults in particular - is not an all too easy task. They usually come before camera in a mood of self-consciousness, even fear, and many a sitter has said to me they would rather be seated in a dental chair. 'Not at all', was my usual answer. 'The operator inflicts no pain upon you'. (pp. 86-87).
