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My first thought is always of light.
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Firsts
Light
Photography
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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
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Landscape
Photography
Thinking
Undervalued
General
Somewhat
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We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.
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Climbing
Feelings
Too Late
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These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
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Environmental
Committed
Deeply
Photographers
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There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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Environmental
Movement
Photography
Roles
Environmental Movement
Major Role
No Question
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Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
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Artist
Giving
Writing
Captions
Locations
Mention
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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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Photographer
Saws
Failed
Pictures
Somehow
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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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Mountain
Camera
Climb
Runs
Wanting
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When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
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Landscape
Human Way
Resonates
Tune
Viewing
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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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People
Photography
Scenery
Thinking
Yosemite
Grand
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Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.
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Important
Memories
Photography
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The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.
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Ocean
Interesting
Land
World
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You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the math and doesn't waste either.
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Inspirational
Nature
Photography
Sunset
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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.
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Artist
Natural World
People
Sierra
Yosemite
Began
Climbed
Experiencing
Explored
Pictures
Show People
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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.
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Messages
Most Powerful
Wild
Fates
Images
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When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.
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Light
Magic
Perfect
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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.
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Communicate
Emotion
Photograph
Photography
Strong
Vision
Fails
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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.
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Artist
Being There
Landscape
Personality
Powerful
Angles
Meaningfully
Portrait
Searching
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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.
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Combination
Began
Diluted
Effective
Pictures
Realise
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Theres 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.
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Artist
Needs
Talking
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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.
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Communicate
Photographs
Clearly
Complex
Concept
Instantly
No Question
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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.
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Features
Light
Photography
Real
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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.
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Add
Artist
Important
Mountaineering
Skills
Best Work Important
Component
Photographers
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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.
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Next Time
Photographer
Real World
Resemblance
Vain
Time Hope World
Mistakes
Bear
Cling
Closer
Hope Time Look
Somehow
The Real World
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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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Differences
Eye
Photograph
World Sometimes More
Began
Observed
Human Eye
Realise
Sees
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If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
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Artist
Equal
Fighting
Forever
Minus
Real
Real World
Vision
Photographs
Limit
The Real World
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I began to realize that the camera 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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Eye
Photography
Powerful
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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.
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Bedroom
Landscape
Photograph
Always Me People
Luckily
Speaks
Strongly
Whenever
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When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I know myself, and the more I am able to challenge myself.
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Challenges
Climbing
Mountain
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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.
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Animal
Landscape
Light
Mean
Mountain
Photograph
Photography
Thinking
Absolutely
Shot
Camera
Record
Nor
Unless
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Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in the city during the week seemed chaotic and unrelated to the events in my mountain world.
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Cities
Photography
Two
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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.
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Artist
Believe
Cognitive
Constructs
Imagery
Thinking
Visual
Represent
Directly
Scientists
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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.
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Distance
Exchanging
Molecules
Natural World
World I Am Me
Photographs
World Me I Am
Spectator
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When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.
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Differences
Light
Photography
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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.
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American Tradition
American West
Coast
East
East Coast
Landscape
People
Photography
Scenic
People America American
North American
Wonders
Photographers
Travelled
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Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.
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Mars
Nikon
Reality
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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.
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Dozen
Editors
Landscape
National Geographic
Postcards
Remember When
Editor
Essay
Geographic
John
Pictures
Promised
Trail
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My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out what works for you, what turns you on, what gives you the greatest amount of energy and feeling of satisfaction.
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Climbing
Passion
People
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My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved from an intense devotion to mountains and wilderness that eventually shaped all the parts of my life and brought them together.
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Book
Mountain
Photography
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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.
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Climbing
Mountain
Natural World
Photograph
Activities
World Mind Body
Directly
Observer
Participant
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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...If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better.
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Mistake
Photography
Real
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At the heart of all photography is an urge to express our deepest personal feelings - to reveal our inner, hidden selves, to unlock the artist. Those of us who become photographers are never satisfied with just looking at someone else's expression of something that is dear to us. We must produce our own images, instead of buying postcards and photo books. We seek to make our own statements of individuality.
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Book
Heart
Photography
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