We Mountaineers Always Live With The Feeling

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.

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.

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.

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.

A Lot Of People Think That When You Have Grand Scenery, Such As You Have In Yosemite, That Photography Must Be Easy.