Nigel Dennis Quotes

I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

I grew up looking at National Geographic. I always wondered who was taking the photos and how.

Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.

Ansel Adams rattled around the Southwest with his battered truck and his view camera, which looked like a giant accordion with a lens attached to it.

At one point, I wanted to be a wildlife photographer. I also love to travel, so maybe I'd do travel writing.

I first worked on sports photography, and it was until 2002, when I was already 32 years old, that I really started working and enjoying Africa's wildlife.

... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'

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 enjoy traveling and recording far-away places and people with my camera. But I also find it wonderfully rewarding to see what I can discover outside my own window. You only need to study the scene with the eyes of a photographer.

By default, I am a travel photographer. I work on a combination of commissions and personal projects that take me around the world.

I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.

I love photography, I love food, and I love traveling, and to put those three things together would just be the ultimate dream.

The biggest cliche in photography is sunrise and sunset.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

So when I became interested in photography and further being inspired by the work that I saw of Ansel and others, it was a natural extension to go back to these places that I knew as a kid and explore them with my camera.

I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.

The most interesting thing was looking out the window and taking photographs of different places on Earth.

Some time ago, we went to Asia and took a camera along, and I began to do what I'd done even years ago doing people. I couldn't get interested in it. And I did hundreds of photographs of details of the monuments as sculpture.

I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.

I've worked with the Los Angeles Zoo for 45 years, and we have this magnificent photographer, Tad Motoyama. He takes these wonderful, wonderful animal pictures. All through the years he's given me copies of these pictures. Well, I have all these gorgeous ones, so I said, 'Tad, I want to do a book with your picture on one side.'

I photographed rocks and trees and tide pools and nudes and all that stuff for years and years. Until 20 years ago when I found that I could do it in the studio and never have to travel.