Nigel Dennis Quotes

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• Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.
• Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.
• For the first few years we lived in a tiny rented cottage at the bottom of a friend's garden. We often joked that there was…
• A large wildlife book, start to finish, could take one to two years, but then I would expect to get several good (nature) magazine features…
• Currently I am working on another three books, doing a lot of magazine work, am shooting for fifteen stock agencies, plus my own photo library…
• For sure, all over Poland, kids had my picture of a lemur on their bedroom wall - but the chances are they may never get…
• I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.
• I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?
• So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!
• I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.
• All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
• My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.
• The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.
• I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.
• In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.
• Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.
• I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at…
• Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.
• Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
• I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going…

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