Everyone started to have a camera. That's when I started to travel outside of New York and go into nature.
Some of my most special shooting experiences have been at weekends.
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.
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 have always avoided photographing in the studio. A woman does not spend her life sitting or standing in front of a seamless white paper background. Although it makes my life more complicated, I prefer to take my camera out into the street... and places that are out of bounds for photographers have always had a special attraction for me.
I don't see the point of photographing trees or rocks because they're there and anyone can photograph them if they're prepared to hang around and wait for the light.
One of my favorite shots was on these, like, lava rocks - but moss was growing on it, and I was lying on it, and it was really green, and the picture was really pretty.
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
I love shooting with real things in the real world. I think it gives a level of drama, performance, and everything seems to rise to the occasion.
... nature photographs downright bore me for some reason or other. I think: 'Oh, yes. Look at that sand dune. What of it?'
There are two kinds of photographers: those who compose pictures and those who take them. The former work in studios. For the latter, the studio is the world... For them, the ordinary doesn't exist: every thing in life is a source of nourishment.
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 like to take pictures of lots of things: people-such as my nephews, my dogs, and just interesting objects that I see. For instance, I might take a picture of flowers by the side of the road, an old sign or a fence.
Michael would take us on location and see how the colors worked in the forests and fields.
I'm a big believer in practical and location photography.
I really like doing portraits, but I like taking pictures of things that are natural, like scenery, too.
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.
I'm definitely not drawn to shooting on a stage, I'm just not.
I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.
I couldn't take pictures of green rolling hills.
People who are new to photography always pull their subjects directly into the sun, which is the most unflattering light in the world.
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 like shooting on location in New York City.
I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.
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.
