29 Quotes by Fay Godwin

I enjoy being part of a process which enables photographers to contribute to a workshop. We all learn in this process, including myself.

I enjoyed using a camera, and thought that I could do something more with it. To turn photography into a paying hobby, you could say.

I had no aspirations to become a landscape photographer at all. In fact it was portraiture that was my beginning, I suppose. I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks. But I was, and still am, an avid reader and so when I first started I chose to photograph many of the great writers in this country to try and earn a living.

I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like. I have a simple rule and that is to spend as much time in the location as possible. You can’t expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years. And in fact I don’t believe there is such a thing as a definitive picture of something. The land is a living, breathing thing and light changes its character every second of every day. That’s why I love it so much.

Look at lots of exhibitions and books, and don’t get hung up on cameras and technical things. Photography is about images.

Maybe black and white is the best medium for landscapes, I don’t know.

I don’t get wrapped up in technique and the like.

I’ve been working with the land for most of my life; walking it and photographing it. And I love it to bits.

You can’t expect to take a definitive image in half an hour. It takes days, often years.