Galen Rowell Quotes

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.

We Mountaineers Always Live With The Feeling That We Came On The Scene Too Late.

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. A Minute - And Sometimes Mere Seconds - Can Make The Difference Between A Superb Image And A Mundane One.

Today, I'm Very Careful Not To Mention Very Specific Locations When I Write Or Give Captions.

I Think Landscape Photography In General Is Somewhat Undervalued.

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.

My Mountaineering Skills Are Not Important To My Best Photographs, But They Do Add A Component To My Work That Is Definitely A Bit Different Than That Of Most Photographers.

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 Words, Too.

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.

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.

There Is No Question That Photography Has Played A Major Role In The Environmental Movement.

A Lot Of People Think That When You Have Grand Scenery, Such As You Have In Yosemite, That Photography Must Be Easy.