Banerjee And Galen Rowell Essay
From all the health benefits that hiking can bring as well as the sense of serenity the one might feel, two photographers that both enjoy this activity took amazing photos of true beauty that only the great outdoor can offer. Both Arnab Banerjee and Galen Rowell are outdoors men that don’t take it for granted and can bring out the purity of nature. Galen Rowell seem like he was always meant to be a photographer. Rowell was born in Oakland 1940 and grew up in Berkeley, California. He was college professor and a later became a concert cellist. However, since he was young he was interested in the outdoors. He began hiking and climbing various mountains at the age of ten on Sierra Club outings, and by the age of sixteen he made his first
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roped climb in Yosemite Valley. Over the course of the next fifteen years he put in more than a hundred first ascents of new routes in Yosemite Valley and in the High Sierra backcountry. Galen Rowell began taking photographs as a way to share his adventures with friends and family. In 1972 Rowell became a full-time photographer after he decided to sell his small automotive business. Less than a year later Rowell did his first major magazine assignment, it is a cover story for National Geographic Magazine. As for Arnab Banerjee he lives in the lower side of the Hudson Valley in New York. He loves to look at any photographs of nature and this love for photographs of nature have devolved too many of the mountain climbing and exploration trips to the towering mountain ranges and wildernesses all over the world. However his occupation is a business strategist and spends the rest of his time making evocative and unique nature images. His writing and images have been published in many journals for everyone to see.
Both of the photographers took a photo of two complete mountains and yet have a similar contrast in color of both photos. The blue color is very intense from the sky above the mountains as well as the water below them. Both photos are notably large in scale with the photographer standing back taking a picture of the towing mountains without focusing on a single aspect, but rather on multiple parts that make the picture whole. Furthermore both photos contain certain parts that are shaded and are really dark compared to the rest of the picture. This causes the rich bright colors that are there really pop making it seem like an overwhelming and yet satisfying sense of color. In the fall of 2001, Rowell took a picture of the North Lake, and named the photo “Fall Reflections in North Lake”.
The photo contains bright vivid colors of blue, orange and green. The orange color really stands out due it its contrast with the reflecting water and the blue sky. The orange on the mountain also seems to really stand out because of where the colors blue and orange sit on the color wheel. The color wheel (ROYGBV) contains red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The colors on are the wheel have blue and orange to sit opposite of each other. When the colors are like this it makes it more appealing to the human eye. Many painters use this wheel to make very appealing color combination in their work, Rowell was lucky enough to find the colors in nature and take such a stunning photo. Rowell finds inspiration in many places and seems to be very talented in showing his work. According to The Washington Post, “Galen Rowell may be the foremost practitioner of that hybrid art, photojournalism.” No scene was ever taken for granted. Rowell’s favorite landscapes feature unexpected convergence of light and form, seemingly unrepeatable moments captured by combining imagination and action with a clear understanding of outdoor optical phenomena. Rowell calls these images “dynamic landscapes,” and his search for them is recorded in his most well-known 1986 book, Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape. His favorite images consist of people that show them in connection with a specific part environment in delicate harmony. Arnab Banerjee also had a similar color scheme in his photo of
mountain. In Arnab Banerjee’s picture title “Awakening”, it shows the tops of mountains at the break of dawn that really vibrant with a red and orange glow that really seems to be the highlight of this photo. A Lot of the other elements of the photo seem to revolve around the glowing mountain tops. The entire image features these vibrantly shining peaks in the background, the lake in the middle ground, complete with a rushing stream in the foreground, all coming together to capture the key characteristics of this breathtaking landscape. Arnab Banerjee is a fine art photographer, who is currently living in Seattle, WA. Many of Arnab's images have own international awards, published in magazines and collected by art enthusiasts. Arnab's works focus on natural and scenic landscapes, historical and cultural destinations around the world. He pursues the path of capturing unique and artistic expressions, rather than documentaries of our world. He even mentions that the image “Awakening” was pre-visualized mentally. I knew that an image was out there. “It was pure magic when I found the spot – as if I visited it in a past life (if there is such a thing) and then re-discovered it.” Most of his photographs are made during long days and weeks in the fields, connecting with nature and people at a deeper level and hence, are product of personal vision and perspectives. Although both of these photos contain mountains with a stream of water flowing beneath them, they are not the same. In Rowell photo of the fall reflection, it includes more of a focus of the overall landscape getting the colorful mountain in the front as wells as the gray mountain in the back. He has elements of both a grayscale from the back and a vibrant skew of colors form the upfront mountain that makes the colors really pop. In Banerjees photo, the central focus is the bright red orange mountain in the back. The mountain is not centered in the middle of the photo rather its moved closer to the top to establish a sense of a towering view from the bottom. The edges of the bottom half of the photos are really dark. The darkness fades as it gets closer to the top. However in Rowell’s picture it’s mostly vibrant all around except for one spot at the left middle side of the picture where it’s almost completely blacked out due to the shadow of another mountain. In the end these two remarkable photos stand out from one another
roped climb in Yosemite Valley. Over the course of the next fifteen years he put in more than a hundred first ascents of new routes in Yosemite Valley and in the High Sierra backcountry. Galen Rowell began taking photographs as a way to share his adventures with friends and family. In 1972 Rowell became a full-time photographer after he decided to sell his small automotive business. Less than a year later Rowell did his first major magazine assignment, it is a cover story for National Geographic Magazine. As for Arnab Banerjee he lives in the lower side of the Hudson Valley in New York. He loves to look at any photographs of nature and this love for photographs of nature have devolved too many of the mountain climbing and exploration trips to the towering mountain ranges and wildernesses all over the world. However his occupation is a business strategist and spends the rest of his time making evocative and unique nature images. His writing and images have been published in many journals for everyone to see.
Both of the photographers took a photo of two complete mountains and yet have a similar contrast in color of both photos. The blue color is very intense from the sky above the mountains as well as the water below them. Both photos are notably large in scale with the photographer standing back taking a picture of the towing mountains without focusing on a single aspect, but rather on multiple parts that make the picture whole. Furthermore both photos contain certain parts that are shaded and are really dark compared to the rest of the picture. This causes the rich bright colors that are there really pop making it seem like an overwhelming and yet satisfying sense of color. In the fall of 2001, Rowell took a picture of the North Lake, and named the photo “Fall Reflections in North Lake”.
The photo contains bright vivid colors of blue, orange and green. The orange color really stands out due it its contrast with the reflecting water and the blue sky. The orange on the mountain also seems to really stand out because of where the colors blue and orange sit on the color wheel. The color wheel (ROYGBV) contains red, orange, yellow, green, blue, and violet. The colors on are the wheel have blue and orange to sit opposite of each other. When the colors are like this it makes it more appealing to the human eye. Many painters use this wheel to make very appealing color combination in their work, Rowell was lucky enough to find the colors in nature and take such a stunning photo. Rowell finds inspiration in many places and seems to be very talented in showing his work. According to The Washington Post, “Galen Rowell may be the foremost practitioner of that hybrid art, photojournalism.” No scene was ever taken for granted. Rowell’s favorite landscapes feature unexpected convergence of light and form, seemingly unrepeatable moments captured by combining imagination and action with a clear understanding of outdoor optical phenomena. Rowell calls these images “dynamic landscapes,” and his search for them is recorded in his most well-known 1986 book, Mountain Light: In Search of the Dynamic Landscape. His favorite images consist of people that show them in connection with a specific part environment in delicate harmony. Arnab Banerjee also had a similar color scheme in his photo of
mountain. In Arnab Banerjee’s picture title “Awakening”, it shows the tops of mountains at the break of dawn that really vibrant with a red and orange glow that really seems to be the highlight of this photo. A Lot of the other elements of the photo seem to revolve around the glowing mountain tops. The entire image features these vibrantly shining peaks in the background, the lake in the middle ground, complete with a rushing stream in the foreground, all coming together to capture the key characteristics of this breathtaking landscape. Arnab Banerjee is a fine art photographer, who is currently living in Seattle, WA. Many of Arnab's images have own international awards, published in magazines and collected by art enthusiasts. Arnab's works focus on natural and scenic landscapes, historical and cultural destinations around the world. He pursues the path of capturing unique and artistic expressions, rather than documentaries of our world. He even mentions that the image “Awakening” was pre-visualized mentally. I knew that an image was out there. “It was pure magic when I found the spot – as if I visited it in a past life (if there is such a thing) and then re-discovered it.” Most of his photographs are made during long days and weeks in the fields, connecting with nature and people at a deeper level and hence, are product of personal vision and perspectives. Although both of these photos contain mountains with a stream of water flowing beneath them, they are not the same. In Rowell photo of the fall reflection, it includes more of a focus of the overall landscape getting the colorful mountain in the front as wells as the gray mountain in the back. He has elements of both a grayscale from the back and a vibrant skew of colors form the upfront mountain that makes the colors really pop. In Banerjees photo, the central focus is the bright red orange mountain in the back. The mountain is not centered in the middle of the photo rather its moved closer to the top to establish a sense of a towering view from the bottom. The edges of the bottom half of the photos are really dark. The darkness fades as it gets closer to the top. However in Rowell’s picture it’s mostly vibrant all around except for one spot at the left middle side of the picture where it’s almost completely blacked out due to the shadow of another mountain. In the end these two remarkable photos stand out from one another