Galen Rowell

A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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I began to realise that film sees the world differently than the human eye, and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powerful than what you actually observed. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only too make our photographs equal to what we see out there, but no better. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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Luckily, many other people tell me how they have had a particular landscape photograph of mine in their office or bedroom for 15 years and it always speaks to them strongly whenever they see it. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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My first thought is always of light. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light. ↗

— Galen Rowell

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