Galen Rowell

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a…

— Galen Rowell

Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept…

— Galen Rowell

Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the…

— Galen Rowell

The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the…

— Galen Rowell

I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

— Galen Rowell

We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

— Galen Rowell

Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.

— Galen Rowell

One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope…

— Galen Rowell

There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.

— Galen Rowell

The landscape is like being there with a powerful personality and I'm searching for just the right angles to make that portrait…

— Galen Rowell

Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality…

— Galen Rowell

You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good…

— Galen Rowell

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

— Galen Rowell

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make…

— Galen Rowell

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. It's a real challenge to work…

— Galen Rowell

When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high…

— Galen Rowell

I like to feel that all my best photographs had strong personal visions and that a photograph that doesn't have a personal…

— Galen Rowell

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt…

— Galen Rowell

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and…

— Galen Rowell

My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a…

— Galen Rowell

When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense…

— Galen Rowell

I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in…

— Galen Rowell

Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What…

— Galen Rowell

My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing…

— Galen Rowell

If we limit our vision to the real world, we will forever be fighting on the minus side of things, working only…

— Galen Rowell