Galen Rowell Quotes

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• My first thought is always of light.
• I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more…
• A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
• I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.
• There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
• My interest in photography did not begin with books or mentors, or with any burning desire to see the world through a camera. It evolved…
• When the light is right and everything is working for me, I feel as tense as when making a difficult maneuver high on a mountain.…
• Often when I walked alone in the mountains, I tried to make sense out of the two halves of my life. What went on in…
• I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an…
• Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.
• One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time…
• You only get one sunrise and one sunset a day, and you only get so many days on the planet. A good photographer does the…
• Theres no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need…
• When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound…
• And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
• The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.
• Small, portable digital cameras that exceed the performance of an off-the-shelf Nikon using 35mm slide film are further away from current reality than the proposed…
• When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the…
• My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing.…
• We mountaineers always live with the feeling that we came on the scene too late.

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