"Photography is an art of hundredths and thousandths of seconds, which makes for slim odds at perfection. The moment of any image is preceded by an infinite number of events that coalesce in a single instant, and it evaporates just as quickly as it appears." — Cory Richards The Color of Everything: A Journey to Quiet the Chaos Within
"Take nothing but pictures, leave nothing but footprints, kill nothing but time." — Unknown
"In this new social media era, the portrayal of women in the backcountry has taken a turn for the fabricated. Instagram users have likely seen the emerging trend of imagery of perfectly coifed women in fashion outdoor wear staring out at beautiful landscapes. These hyper-curated photos saturate Instagram feeds, and this phenomenon is beginning to have a hand in shaping the portrayal of women in outdoor adventure. The rise of this trend has shifted the focus to the aesthetics of the shot rather than the endeavor itself, let alone the skills required for it. One of the big questions centers on the message this category of outdoor portrayals sends to women about what the focus of backcountry adventures 'should' be. In this age of the social media-ization of adventure lifestyles, the line is more blurred than ever about what’s realistic and what’s not." — Guest Editor Misadventures Magazine, "The Reality of Women's Sports According to Instagram"
"It’s not about me, it’s about the person or place in the photo." — Claire Giordano "Documenting Adventure" workshop, Portland, 2018
"Art is work." — Unknown
"The view changed incrementally every few dozen steps, and after 50 iPhone photos, you kind of feel like you’ve captured it, but of course you haven’t. When you’re walking somewhere like that, you know it’s special, but you don’t know that years later you’ll feel like maybe you rushed it. Maybe you will make it back there again, maybe you won’t, and it for sure would be different, and even if it’s not different you’ll be a little different, so the whole thing won’t be the same anyway. But damn, what a view." — Brendan Leonard Semi-Rad, "Walking the Knife Edge of Switzerland’s Hardergrat"
"We click the shutter release, only to have our work instantly become a part of the past—moments frozen in time, just as droplets of water freeze onto a growing icicle." — Nikki Smith
"Many pictures turn out to be limp translations of the known world instead of vital objects which create an intrinsic world of their own. There is a vast difference between taking a picture and making a photograph." — Robert Heinecken
