When we tune in to an especially human way of viewing the landscape powerfully, it resonates with an audience. Galen Rowell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw. Galen Rowell Read Quote
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. Galen Rowell Read Quote
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message. Galen Rowell Read Quote
Ever since the 1860s when photographers travelled the American West and brought photographs of scenic wonders back to the people on the East Coast of America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment. Galen Rowell Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
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 Read Quote
