Adventure Photography Quotes

I come from an era when we had to figure out how to bolt a camera to a motorcycle or an airplane or dig a hole and find a canyon deep enough to repel into it so that we can capture images that were real.

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

As a professional climber and photographer, I am asked to shoot in a lot of situations with a lot of different people. Sometimes I'm with the hardest, most seasoned alpinists in the world. Sometimes I'm hanging out with celebrities doing a benefit climb.

I like photography and writing and travel, so I have a lot of cerebral occupations. I am going to become a sailor and do a world tour on my yacht if I don't get any more work.

You need a GoPro camera and some fun mounts to capture the chaos.

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.

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.

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

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra.

Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.

I am not a photojournalist and certainly not used to the Jason Bourne type stuff that some photographers have to deal with.

I love to photograph the gorgeous landscapes when I travel.

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

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

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

The first thing I did with my very first camera was climb Mt. Fuji. Climbing Mt. Fuji is a lesson in determination and moderation. It would be fair to ask if I took the moderation part to heart. But it certainly was a lesson in respecting your camera. If I was going to live with this thing, I was going to have to think about what that meant. There were not going to be any pictures without it.

I have a GoPro in the trunk of my streetcar.