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" And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw. "

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" 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. "

" Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" My first thought is always of light. "

" When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience. "

" One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it. "

" 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 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. "

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

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

" 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 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. "

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions. "

" I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light. "

" I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. "

" 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. "

" These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message. "

" Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm. "

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