The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.

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

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  Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scen

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  These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.

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  Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

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

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  My first thought is always of light.