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• The Master of Light | |
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• Great Place to Hang | |
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• Extreme Elevations | |
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• A different day in Dixie | |
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• Seligman's Town Clown | |
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• Beady-eyed charmers | |
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• Kingston Summit: Across the Toiyabe Range | |
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• The Narrows of Lovell Wash |
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 PHOTOGRAPHY B YGALEN ROWELL The Master of Light: A Tribute to Galen Rowell
STORY BY DEAN STEVENS Four lives were lost in that tragedy. Two of them were Galen Rowell and Barbara Cushman Rowell. They were my employers. And my friends. Photographing the Sierra Nevada was at the heart of Galen's art. He started his career in the Sierra, resided there, and died there. While some of his most famous pictures were shot elsewhere, he said on his Web site, "I've known all along that more of what I am seeking in the wilds is right here in my home state of California than anywhere else on Earth. But there's a Catch-22. I couldn't say it with authority until I had all those journeys to Tibet, Nepal, Pakistan, China, South America, Antarctica, and Alaska behind me." Famed as photographers, the Rowells were also writers, artists, adventurers, entrepreneurs, humanitarians, activists, and particularly decent human beings. They were equally driven to be the best at everything they did. Galen's passions were all rooted in the natural world. He climbed mountains because the rocks seemed to have a magnetic attraction to the very core of his being. He became a photographer as a way to document his mountain adventures. ...
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 The March/April 2003 Issue is out. Find it at Las Vegas bookstores today. |
