Nigel Dennis 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, Going Out, Want

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• All I really wanted to do was wildlife photography.

  Nigel Dennis

  Photography, Wildlife, Wanted

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

  Nigel Dennis

  Shy, Firsts, Nocturnal

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• 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

  Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

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• 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, Encounters

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• 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

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• Courage is clearly a readiness to risk self-humiliation.

  Nigel Dennis

  Self, Risk, Humiliation

  Nigel Forbes Dennis (1949). “A Sea Change”

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

  Nigel Dennis

  Advantage, States, Edges

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

  Nigel Dennis

  Art, Passion, Passion For Art

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• The Kalahari is brilliant - and easy to visit.

  Nigel Dennis

  Brilliant, Easy, Brilliant Ideas

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

  Nigel Dennis

  Needs, Shooting, Lists

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

  Nigel Dennis

  Dream, Example, Wildlife

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• 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, Cameras, Twenties

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• [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

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

  Nigel Dennis

  Photography, Mean, Painting

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• 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

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• 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, Cottages

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• 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

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• 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

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• 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

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• I concentrate on the southern African subcontinent.

  Nigel Dennis

  Southern

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

  Nigel Dennis

  Way

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

  Nigel Dennis

  Money, Sex, Hands

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