Nigel Dennis famous quotes

I carry a notebook full of sketches of pictures I want to take - they are really scruffy sketches, but at least I am going out there with a clear objective.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Notebook #Want #Going Out

All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Photography #Wildlife #Wanted

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

#Courage #Self #Risk

Close encounters are bad. Bad for the animal, as it causes stress, and bad for me for exactly the same reason.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Stress #Animal #Causes

I hope to goodness I would not still be working in the corporate world - the money is OK but it is no life at all.
-- Nigel Dennis

#World #Goodness #Stills

Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Self #Risk #Humiliation

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

#Advantage #States

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

#Art #Passion

The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Brilliant #Easy #Brilliant Ideas

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

#Shy #Firsts #Nocturnal

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

#Lists #Needs #Shooting

I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Dream #Wildlife #Example

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

#Years #Gears #Debt

[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.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Witty #Husband #Science

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

#Photography #Mean #Painting

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

#Photography #Games #Done

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 plenty of film in the fridge, but not too much food!
-- Nigel Dennis

#Garden #Years #Too Much

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.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Book #Years #Two

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!
-- Nigel Dennis

#Book #Agency #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 to see a real lemur in Madagascar. I thought this was great and it really meant a lot to me.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Wall #Real #Kids

I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.
-- Nigel Dennis

#Southern

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

#Way

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

#Money #Sex #Hands