Quotes of Galen Rowell - somelinesforyou

“ When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience. ”

- Galen Rowell

“ 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. ”

- 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 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

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

- Galen Rowell

“ 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. ”

- Galen Rowell

“ When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience. ”

- 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

“ These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message. ”

- Galen Rowell

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

- Galen Rowell

“ Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm. ”

- 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

“ 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. ”

- 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

“ 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. ”

- 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 think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued. ”

- 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

“ 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. ”

- Galen Rowell

“ 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. ”

- 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 vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails. ”

- Galen Rowell

“ 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. ”

- 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 come across as meaningfully as possible. ”

- Galen Rowell

“ The reason that I keep writing is that all my most powerful messages about the fates of wild places that I care about need to have words as well as images. ”

- Galen Rowell

“ When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience. ”

- Galen Rowell

“ When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience. ”

- 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

“ 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. ”

- 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 vision or doesn't communicate emotion fails. ”

- 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
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