Quotes by Photographers

I don't get wrapped up in technique and the like. Fay Godwin

Wrapped Like Up Get Technique

I have always loved reading, so was interested in the literary world, and took many literary portraits. Fay Godwin

World Reading Took Always Literary Loved Interested Many Portraits

I'm not faithful to one particular medium, and it's what I try to teach to people who work with me. Fay Godwin

Work Me People Try Faithful Medium Particular Teach Who

I'm more interested in photographing people who have done something, like writers or directors - even billionaires - as long as I can study them before I photograph them. Francesco Carrozzini

People Long Before Photograph Photographing Something More Directors Writers Study Like Done Interested Them Who Billionaires Even

I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes. Francesco Carrozzini

Beautiful Girl Clothes Beautiful Clothes Beautiful Girls Just Not Interested Interested

Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future. Frans Lanting

Future Past Starts Distant Points Toward Biodiversity

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different. Frans Lanting

Lion Society Members Individuals Mates Very Different

Nature's my muse and it's been my passion. Frans Lanting

Nature Passion Been Muse

My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else. Frans Lanting

Work You Sometimes Wife Dance Animals Become Fall Wild Else Everything Once Way Says Mood Intuitive More Like Involves Becoming Than Behind Movements Different Anything Anything Else Your Reason Creatures Letting Start

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography. Frans Lanting

Nature Photography First Beauty States Visit About Student Learned Became Tradition West Overwhelmed American Interested Holland United United States University

Life needs a membrane to contain itself so it can replicate and mutate. Frans Lanting

Life Needs Contain Itself Replicate

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

You Photography People Think Must Easy Scenery Lot Yosemite Grand

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. Galen Rowell

Together Words Own Unless Diluted My Own Combination Pictures Wrote Message Effective Began Realise Then Really Career

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. Galen Rowell

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

Today Locations Give Mention Write Very Captions Specific Careful

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. Galen Rowell

Natural People World Sierra High Able Taking Pictures Climbed Began Yosemite Experiencing Explored Natural World Show Show People

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. Galen Rowell

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. Galen Rowell

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

Resonates Way Audience Human Tune Landscape Viewing Human Way

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. Galen Rowell

Photography Think General Somewhat Undervalued Landscape

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. Galen Rowell