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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.

I've been in beautiful landscapes where one is tempted to whip out a camera and take a picture. I've learned to resist that.

I can go into the wilderness and not see anyone for days and experience a kind of space that hasn't changed for tens of thousands of years. Having that experience was necessary to my perception of how photography can look at the changes humanity has brought about in the landscape. My work does become a kind of lament.

Yosemite Valley is like a tourist zoo. It's shameful.

When you live by the sea, there are definite seasons when you can see the weather coming and going, which lends itself to photography.

Photography is the simplest thing in the world, but it is incredibly complicated to make it really work.

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.

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.

Painting directly from nature is difficult as things do not remain the same; the camera helps to retain the picture in your mind.