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

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 Si….

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 meanin….

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….

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living..

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 k….

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….

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 feature….

The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights..

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 nee….

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….

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 powe….

My first thought is always of light..

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 tha….

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly….

Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality tha….

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 eithe….

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 c….

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….

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 o….

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 communic….