Galen Rowell
Galen Rowell
Galen Avery Rowellwas a wilderness photographer and climber. Born in Oakland, California, he became a full-time photographer in 1972...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPhotographer
Date of Birth23 August 1940
CountryUnited States of America
american-photographer began human realise sees
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.
reality mars nikon
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 NASA manned Mars mission, although I expect both to happen sometime during my lifetime.
photography real mistake
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 his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it...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.
photography real light
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.
american-photographer began message pictures realise unless wrote
The combination of pictures and words together can be really effective, and I began to realise in my career that unless I wrote my own words, then my message was diluted.
american-photographer committed deeply environmental nature
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
american-photographer concept instantly
There's no question that photographs communicate more instantly and powerfully than words do, but if you want to communicate a complex concept clearly, you need words, too.
american-photographer days distance feeling molecules natural rather
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.
american-photographer equal fighting forever limit minus side vision
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.
american-photographer believe cognitive constructs directly imagery represent scientists system view visual
I think that cognitive scientists would support the view that our visual system does not directly represent what is out there in the world and that our brain constructs a lot of the imagery that we believe we are seeing.
american-photographer began climbed explored people taking yosemite
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.
american-photographer best emotion personal photograph visions
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.
american-photographer human resonates viewing
When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience.
american-photographer mine particular people photograph speaks strongly whenever
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.