My advice for climbers or photographers is to really tune into your own passions and not just what other people are doing or aren't doing. Figure out…

- Galen Rowell

I almost never set out to photograph a landscape, nor do I think of my camera as a means of recording a mountain or an animal unless I absolutely nee…

- Galen Rowell

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 feature…

- Galen Rowell

I began to realize that the camera sees the world differently than the human eye and that sometimes those differences can make a photograph more powe…

- Galen Rowell

When I go to the mountains, I intuitively know my place in the world much better through these experiences. The more intense they are, the better I k…

- Galen Rowell

Memory selects single important images, just as the camera does. In that manner both are able to isolate the highest moments of living.

- Galen Rowell

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…

- Galen Rowell

The most interesting parts of the natural world are the edges, places where ocean meets land, meadow meets forest, timberline touches the heights.

- Galen Rowell

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…

- Galen Rowell