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 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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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….

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 inte….

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….

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….

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

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….

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

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….

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

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

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