And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.

Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed.

When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain. A minute - and sometimes mere seconds - can make the difference between a superb image and a mundane one.