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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

Topics: Began Career Combination Effective Message My Own Own Pictures Realise Really Then Together Unless Words Wrote

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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

Topics: About Care Fates Images Keep Messages Most Most Powerful Need Places Powerful Reason Well Wild Words Writing I Care

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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

Topics: America American Back Brought Coast East East Coast Environment Ever Had Landscape North North American People Photographers Photographs Photography Since Tradition Travelled Used West Wonders

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

~Galen Rowell

Topics: Committed Days Deeply Environmental Message Most Nature Photographers

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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

Topics: Challenge Challenging Done Ever Features Find Hardest Light Most Natural Photography Real Some Work

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

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Topics: About Better Early Failed Looked Most Pictures Saw Somehow Than

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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

Topics: Better Equal Fighting Forever Limit Make Minus Only Our Out Photographs Real Real World See Side The Real World Things Too Vision Will Working World

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Photographer

Born: August 23rd, 1940

Died: August 11th, 2002

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