A couple aside "indicative of nothing" incidents I recall reading some years ago, probably in Outdoor Photographer magazine. In commenting about camera brands and "truth in advertising", he gave an example (Para phrasing), "I wouldn't provide a picture I'd shot with a Nikon and claim it to have been shot with a Pentax." Another was his relating an incident, while climbing, when he dropped his camera. It was in an area where there was no hope of recovery. He wrote, as it happened, there was another climber nearby who agreed to lend him his Pentax to shoot a scene he wanted badly. I looked for a follow up comment regarding the Pentax photos. Found none. Jack ----- Original Message ----- From: Stan Halpin <s...@stans-photography.info> To: Pentax-Discuss Mail List <pdml@pdml.net> Cc: Sent: Tuesday, November 5, 2013 5:45 AM Subject: Re: Your opinion on mr Rowell?
On Nov 5, 2013, at 12:08 AM, David Mann wrote: > On Nov 5, 2013, at 4:47 pm, Bill <anotherdrunken...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 04/11/2013 7:49 PM, Jack Davis wrote: >>> I thought Galen to be a Nikon bigot and employed a swaggering literary >>> style. I wrote and told him that some years prior to his death. >> Galen Rowell is dead? That's very sad. He was a good photographer. > > Yes, both he and his wife were killed in a light-plane crash several years > ago. IIRC something went wrong during landing. > > I'm another fan of his... I borrowed Mountain Light from the library a long > time ago and decided to buy a copy, only to find that it was out of print. > > Cheers, > Dave > As a climber and photographer Rowell was an inspiration for me. Not in the sense that "someday I want to be like him", because he was so far beyond me that I couldn't imagine getting to that level myself myself. More in the sense that it was empowering to see someone do good work and make a good living and enjoy himself throughout. He was one of the best mountain-travel writers of his day, the best mountain-scape photographer of his day, and he did it from the inside. He wasn't just passing through; he lived in those scenes. I was quite saddened when I heard about his accident a few years ago. stan -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions. -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List PDML@pdml.net http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
