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I'm exchanging molecules every 30 days with the natural world and in a spiritual sense I know I am a part of it and take my photographs from that emotional feeling within me, rather than from an emotional distance as a spectator. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#days #distance #emotional #every #exchanging

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

#body #climbing #directly #even #i

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

#american #american tradition #back #brought #coast

I began taking pictures in the natural world to be able to show people what I was experiencing when I climbed and explored in Yosemite in the High Sierra. ↗

— Galen Rowell

#began #climbed #experiencing #explored #high

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

#communicate #emotion #fails #feel #had

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

#brain #cognitive #constructs #directly #does

I try to look at design from a more conceptual standpoint. ↗

— Cynthia Rowley

#design #i #look #more #standpoint

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

#equal #fighting #forever #limit #make

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

#bedroom #had #how #landscape #luckily

Nowadays love is a matter of chance, matrimony a matter of money and divorce a matter of course. ↗

— Helen Rowland

#course #divorce #love #love is #matrimony