Landscape Photography Quotes

To photograph truthfully and effectively is to see beneath the surfaces.

Photography can never grow up if it imitates some other medium. It has to walk alone; it has to be itself.

We must remember that a photograph can hold just as much as we put into it, and no one has ever approached the full possibilities of the medium.

Notebook. No photographer should be without one!

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

We rely, I think, on landscape photography to make intelligible to us what we already know.

Beauty can be seen in all things.

A true photograph need not be explained, nor can it be contained in words.

Men have dominated the field of landscape photography just as they have dominated the land itself. Thus shooting a virgin landscape has been man's work - hunting, not gardening.

I am sure the next step will be the electronic image, and I hope I shall live to see it. I trust that the creative eye will continue to function, whatever technological innovations may develop.

It is my intention to present - through the medium of photography - intuitive observations of the natural world which may have meaning to the spectators.

A great photograph is a full expression of what one feels...

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

Photography, as we all know, is not real at all. It is an illusion of reality with which we create our own private world.

Computer photography won't be photography as we know it. I think photography will always be chemical.

Everybody now has a camera, whether it is a professional instrument or just part of a phone. Landscape photography is a pastime enjoyed by more and more. Getting it right is not an issue. It is difficult to make a mistake with the sophisticated technology we now have. Making a personal and creative image is a far greater challenge.

When words become unclear, I shall focus with photographs. When images become inadequate, I shall be content with silence.

Sometimes I do get to places just when God's ready to have somebody click the shutter.

A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.

There's nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.

Dodging and burning are steps to take care of mistakes God made in establishing tonal relationships.

It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.

There is nothing worse than a sharp image of a fuzzy concept.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

Photography, as a powerful medium of expression and communications, offers an infinite variety of perception, interpretation and execution.

I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and when I first did it, I felt very perverse.

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.

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

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

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Beauty can be seen in all things, seeing and composing the beauty is what separates the snapshot from the photograph.

I treat the photograph as a work of great complexity in which you can find drama. Add to that a careful composition of landscapes, live photography, the right music and interviews with people, and it becomes a style.

There are always two people in every picture: the photographer and the viewer.

There are no rules for good photographs, there are only good photographs.

Photography is more than a medium for factual communication of ideas. It is a creative art.

You don't take a photograph, you make it.

The single most important component of a camera is the twelve inches behind it!

Not everybody trusts paintings but people believe photographs.