Quotes by 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)

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

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 animal unless I absolutely need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light. (Galen Rowell)

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 animal unless I absolutely need a record shot. My first thought is always of light. (Galen Rowell)

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)

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)

I find it some of the hardest photography and the most challenging photography I've ever done. Its a real challenge to work with the natural features and the natural light. (Galen Rowell)

I remember when an editor at the National Geographic promised to run about a dozen of my landscape pictures from a story on the John Muir trail as an essay, but when the group of editors got together, someone said that my pictures looked like postcards. (Galen Rowell)

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. (Galen Rowell)

Im 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)