Nigel Dennis Quotes

But then one is always excited by descriptions of money changing hands. It's much more fundamental than sex.

I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot.

I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?

Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot.

Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need.

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 - all this keeps me quite busy!

Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects.

My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal.

[Agatha Christie] is fond of quoting the witty wife who once said, 'an archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
Christie's husband, Max Mallowan, was an archaeologist.

Most acts of assent require far more courage than most acts of protest, since courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

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 off the back of this, plus of course a lot of stock.

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all.