Galen Rowell Quotes

Having photographed the landscape for a number of years and specifically working with trees and in the forest I found, without consciously thinking about it, that it was a great learning experience for me in terms of organizing elements.

When the magic hour arrives, my thoughts center on light rather than on the landscape. I search for perfect light, then hunt for something earthbound to match with it.

This thing called the camera, that takes everything in equally, taught me a lot about how to see.

I like to work my camera as if it were a musical instrument.

Photography can be a volatile situation. It can be very potent.

I make photographs and still make photographs of the natural environment. It's a love because that was part of my life before I was involved in photography.

I have always been a very keen walker, though, and I often took a camera with me on my walks.

I'm not a politician or a scholar or political historian. I'm just a photographer who's trying to capture a spirit. It's not an intellectual process; it's an intuitive process.

Whether he is an artist or not, the photographer is a joyous sensualist, for the simple reason that the eye traffics in feelings, not in thoughts.

In everything I do, the aesthetics are driven by the emotion. However I can do that with a camera, whether it's a long lens or a wide lens, I'll do.

I've always been super into photography and the visuals that support my music.

I have more of a relationship with the subject than I do with my camera equipment. To me, camera equipment is like a tin of shoe polish and a brush - I use that as a tool, but my basic camera is my emotion and my eyes. It's not anything to do with the wonderful cameras I use.

Which is my best picture? The one I will do tomorrow.

I just walk around, observing the subject from various angles until the picture elements arrange themselves into a composition that pleases my eye.

The camera is for us a tool, not a pretty mechanical toy ... people think far too much about techniques and not enough about seeing.

All photography is Pop, and all photographers are crazy... they feel guilty since they don't have to do very much - just push a button.

On digital photography: It's fantastic, but it's not a freebie for anything. You still have to have this (he points to his eyes), and this (points to his heart), and feet.

Photography is, first of all, a way of seeing.

In GENESIS, my camera allowed nature to speak to me. And it was my privilege to listen.

The Earth is Art, The Photographer is only a Witness.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera

Photographier: c'est mettre sur la meme ligne de mire la tete, l'oeil et le coeur.

Photography is solitary and there are lags between seeing with your eyes and seeing through the lens, and then seeing the image on your computer... I often see things after the fact. So there’s a revelatory quality. And this definitely includes a sense of playfulness, because you’re not sure what the consequences are going to be.

You don't make a photograph just with a camera. You bring to the act of photography all the pictures you have seen, the books you have read, the music you have heard, the people you have loved.

I think as I get older that's an area that I'd like to explore more. Going from being in front of the lens to behind it.