I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator.

Galen Rowell also mastered the technique of using balanced fill flash which allowed him to lighten the deepest shadows in a subtle way to match the relatively narrow dynamic range of color reversal film. Galen Avery Rowell (August 23 1940 – August 11 2002) was a noted wilderness photographer and climber. Oldest person to climb Yosemite's El Capitan in one day at age 57


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Rowell's work is on display at the Mountain Light Gallery in the Eastern Sierra Nevada town of Bishop.

Born in Oakland California he became a full-time photographer in 1972. Galen Avery Rowell (August 23 1940 – August 11 2002) was a noted wilderness photographer and climber.