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Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.

I get excited by landscape.

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.

With photography, I always think that it's not good enough.

Landscape to me is a planar thing, just a view. Environment is everything down to the ecosystem. Big difference.

Landscape affects you.

For me nature is not landscape, but the dynamism of visual forces.

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights.

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.

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.