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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

Topics: Best Communicate Emotion Fails Feel Had Like Personal Photograph Photographs Strong Vision Visions

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My first thought is always of light.

~Galen Rowell

Topics: Always First Light Thought

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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

Topics: Actually Began Differences Differently Eye Film Human Make More Observed Photograph Powerful Realise Sees Sometimes Than Those World You

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

~Galen Rowell

Topics: Camera Climb Kept Light Me Mountain Runs Take Using Wanting

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What I mean by photographing as a participant rather than observer is that I'm not only involved directly with some of the activities that I photograph, such as mountain climbing, but even when I'm not I have the philosophy that my mind and body are part of the natural world.

~Galen Rowell

Topics: Activities Body Climbing Directly Even Involved Mean Mind Mountain Natural Natural World Observer Only Part Participant Philosophy Photograph Photographing Rather Some Than World

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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

Topics: Believe Brain Cognitive Constructs Directly Does Imagery Lot Our Out Represent Scientists Seeing Support System Think View Visual World Would I Think

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I think landscape photography in general is somewhat undervalued.

~Galen Rowell

Topics: General Landscape Photography Somewhat Think Undervalued I Think

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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

Topics: About Dozen Editor Editors Essay Geographic Got Group John Landscape Like Looked National National Geographic Pictures Postcards Promised Remember Remember When Run Said Someone Story Together Trail I Remember

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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

Topics: Always Bedroom Had How Landscape Luckily Many Me Mine Office Other Particular People Photograph See Speaks Strongly Tell Them Whenever Years

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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

Topics: Clearly Communicate Complex Concept Instantly More Need No Question Photographs Question Than Too Want Words You

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: August 23rd, 1940

Died: August 11th, 2002

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