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"Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm."
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"The problem of direct colour photography has been facing us since the turn of the last century."
"Today my passion is still black and white. Today if I have an array of cameras in front of me the one I would reach for that I would feel most comfortable with would be a 4 X 5 View camera. I was once working in a sort of soft light situation."
"A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long."
"For me the printing process is part of the magic of photography. It's that magic that can be exciting, disappointing, rewarding and frustrating all in the same few moments in the darkroom."
"All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person's (or thing's) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt."
"Actually, when I first started dabbling in photography, I was still working for my parents as a salesman."
"Consulting the rules of composition before taking a photograph, is like consulting the laws of gravity before going for a walk."
"Wherever there is light, one can photograph."
"When the reality looks magnificent, a real art of photography has only one choice: To capture this beauty magnificently!"
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"I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards."
"I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing."
"I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light."
"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."
"I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator."
"A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy."
"Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions."
"My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers."
"There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement."
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