A lot of people think that when you have grand scenery, such as you have in Yosemite, that photography must be easy.
From Galen Rowell
There is no question that photography has played a major role in the environmental movement.
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.
Today, I'm very careful not to mention very specific locations when I write or give captions.
My first thought is always of light.
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.
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 need a 'record shot'. My first thought is always of light.
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.
My mountaineering skills are not important to my best photographs, but they do add a component to my work that is definitely a bit different than that of most photographers.
Wanting to take a light camera with me when I climb or do mountain runs has kept me using exclusively 35 mm.
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