Leroy Chiao Quotes

I get to go to all these beautiful places, so it's nice being able to take pictures of it.

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.

I knew from the first moment I picked up a camera, on my first school assignment, what I wanted to do for the rest of my life. I was going to find a way to travel the world and tell the stories of the people I met through photographs.

I like to write about beautiful places, interesting places to me.

I've been taking pictures of wherever I go, or on planes, whatever.

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

It was not until I was in my forties, in the fifth decade of my life, that the sense of place, the spirit of place, became of paramount importance to me. It was then that I began my travels, that I discovered, through photography, the quality of light, and that I gradually became able to paint the mood of place.

I did some traveling as an amateur and always loved the different places I saw.

Hiking in undiscovered places is a lot of fun.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

I shot images of everything I could find over the course of a year. I would go all over the world and take pictures. In a day, I could easily take thousands.

Consider what a romantic expedition you are on; take notes.

I would like to explore and see this country. I have had so many opportunities to see it from the air! I would like to climb the mountains that I wished I could climb at the time but had to get back to Washington.

I love sightseeing.

I love Scotland, mainly for its landscape. I like walking, and it's a great place to go hiking.

Wherever I go, I'm watching. Even on vacation, when I'm in an airport or a railroad station, I look around, snap pictures, and find out how people do things.

It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.

For me, I think my traveling is usually a lot of photographic memories, and I take a lot of photos.

When I'm on an adventure, I live with a camera in my hand, and that's what I try to give to the readers inside the space that gives us every chapter of the story.

The pictures I take are not regular selfies. I give people a sneak peek into culture and lifestyles and experiences from around the world.

I love travelling and exploring different places in India and around the world.

It's nice to see different places and different parts of the world. It's pretty cool, though I hate flying!

When I was younger, I did things with a camera I would not do by myself. I remember going down to the docks in San Francisco and asking a fisherman if he would take me out on his boat. I would never do that without a camera.

I tend to think of the act of photographing, generally speaking, as an adventure. My favorite thing is to go where I’ve never been.

Nothing happens when you sit at home. I always make it a point to carry a camera with me at all times...I just shoot at what interests me at that moment.