Parenting & Family Quote by Graeme Le Saux

There is something quietly disarming about an athlete refusing the “actually any good” badge in a field where status is usually the whole point. Graeme Le Saux’s line reads like a small act of self-defense against the tyranny of expertise: don’t judge me by the rules, judge me by the joy. He’s not auditioning for the role of Photographer; he’s carving out a private space where failure doesn’t matter and attention does.

The phrasing matters. “Mindset” is the tell - the modern language of performance psychology, goals, and optimization, imported from sport. But he uses it to opt out. That reversal is the subtext: after a career where everything is measured, replayed, and rated, photography becomes a rare zone of unmeasured looking. “I just love to shoot things that catch my eye” reframes the camera as a tool for noticing, not proving.

Then he bridges the “landscapes” and “my kids” without ranking them. That collapse of categories is the point. The grand and the ordinary sit on the same plane if you’re present enough to see them. It’s also a gentle rebuke to the content-economy impulse to make everything impressive. Le Saux is describing photography as a practice of affection: you photograph what you don’t want to rush past.

Coming from a public figure, the humility is strategic but not cynical. It signals authenticity, yes, but it also stakes out a post-career identity built on curiosity rather than competition. In a culture that turns every hobby into a side hustle, he’s insisting on the right to be an amateur - in the best sense of the word.