I understand Joel.
I did recognise the style of writing from some US magazines that I
used to read - Guns & Ammo from my teens to Playboy in my later
teens. It's didactic rather than informative, dogmatic rather than
opinionated. But his success, presumably, does not arise from any
self-doubt, and the style is obviously popular enough to sell.
I will try to find his book and have a look ... it can only help me ;-).
Chris
Chris, You say you don't know Galen Rowell, but you have captured
him in essence. It's all about his own opinion. He has many of them
and cherishes them and will tell you all about them. I came to his
book "Mountain Light" quite late in the game and really had trouble
getting through it, despite some wonderful photography and great
ideas.
I read both of Ansel Adams' series of books on photography (the old
and the new) about 20 years ago. Much more recently I have read
John Shaw's excellent books. Between the two men's entire oeuvres
there is about 10f the ego found on a single page of Galen Rowell.
That of course has nothing to do with whether he is right or not.
Joel W.
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