 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. |
| 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. |
| 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. |
| My first thought is always of light. |
| I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails. |
| I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. |
| I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra. |
