Nigel Dennis Quotes
"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
(Related: Wildlife, Years)
"All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Photography, Wildlife)
"Big game photography in Africa is mainly done from a vehicle, so then I feel I might as well take the lot."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Photography)
"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
(Related: Work, Books)
"Even for an area I know well, I prepare a shooting list of subjects I need."
- Nigel Dennis
"I would never dream, for example, of going to The States to photograph your wildlife."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Dream, Example, states, Wildlife)
"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
(Related: Want)
"I also like flyfishing - maybe I would have figured a way to make a living out of that?"
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Living)
"I also had a tremendous passion for art and read a lot."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Art, Passion)
"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
(Related: Friend, Film, First, Garden, Years)
"I think few wives would have encouraged this kind of drastic and reckless career shift!"
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Career, Wives)
"I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: African)
"In The States I would have no edge, no advantage at all."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: states)
"My first serious project was photographing badgers - very, very difficult as they are shy and nocturnal."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: First, Project)
"Photography started as a means of getting reference material for my paintings of nature subjects."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Nature, Photography)
"So about twenty years ago I gave up on painting - and got into terrible debt after buying a load of camera gear!"
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Buying, Debt, Painting, Years)
"The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit."
- Nigel Dennis
(Related: Visit)
"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
(Related: Life, Money, Hope, Corporate, Goodness, World)