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.
From 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 America we have had a North American tradition of landscape photography used for the environment.
These days, most nature photographers are deeply committed to the environmental message.
And most of my early pictures failed but about one in a 100 somehow looked better than what I saw.
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.
One of the biggest mistakes a photographer can make is to look at the real world and cling to the vain hope that next time his film will somehow bear a closer resemblance to it.
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