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"I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued."
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"Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment."

"I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed."

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"A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy."

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"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
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