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It's up to us as photographers to give voice to the natural world.
My wife says that I become different once I start to work with animals. My movements become different, my mood is different. It involves letting everything fall behind you, becoming intuitive in your dealings with wild creatures in a way that bypasses reason. Sometimes it's more like a dance than anything else.
The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.
Nature's my muse and it's been my passion.
I became interested in photography during my first visit to the United States. I was a student at a university in Holland. I was overwhelmed by the beauty of the American West. That was when I learned about the tradition of nature in American photography.
I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis ... This time it's us that's doing it.
Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.
What my eyes seek in these encounters is not just the beauty traditionally revered by wildlife photographers. The perfection I seek in my photographic composition is a means to show the strength and dignity of animals in nature.
Biodiversity starts in the distant past and it points toward the future.
I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at what's in front of you.
A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.
