Mountain Light

Mountain Light is the classiest “how-to” text on landscape color photography ever published. Here Galen Rowell—America’s greatest outdoor photographer—assembles 80 of his finest images, along with the stories behind them—what he was after and how he achieved it. The photographs (and the details of their creation) are arranged in eight exhibits according to visual themes, reflecting Rowell’s fascination with the infinitely varying qualities of light found in mountain landscapes. He explains how film and the human eye see differently, how he selected and composed the content of his work, how he worked with optical phenomena and natural light, and how equipment and adventure interact in the field.