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.
Galen RowellAbout author
- Author's profession: Photographer
- Nationality: american
- Born: August 23, 1940
- Died: August 11, 2002
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