Photographer Quotes

The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait come across as meaningfully as possible.
The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images.
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.
There is nothing as mysterious as a fact clearly described. I photograph to see what something will look like photographed.
And I think that after nearly 85 years upon this planet that I have a right after working so hard at showing the desolation and the poverty, to show something beautiful for somebody as well.
And now, I feel at 85, I really feel that I'm just ready to start.
At first I wasn't sure that I had the talent, but I did know I had a fear of failure, and that fear compelled me to fight off anything that might abet it.
But I do feel a little teeny right now that I'm just about ready to start, and winter is entering. Half past autumn has arrived.
But I was very disappointed that I didn't get a chance to go overseas with that group, might not have gotten back but I wanted very much to go because there's not much of a record of the exploits of the first Negro fighter group.
I bought my first camera in Seattle, Washington. Only paid about seven dollars and fifty cents for it.
I suffered evils, but without allowing them to rob me of the freedom to expand.
I think maybe the rural influence in my life helped me in a sense, of knowing how to get close to people and talk to them and get my work done.
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