On Dec 17, 2005, at 9:29 AM, Pål Jensen wrote:
Maybe. But I stll think he was the greatest writer on nature photgraphy out there. He was able to put into words and solve the problems outdoor photographer struggle with. I would say his writing is the only writing on photography that litteralle made me better photographer.
I think he was a better writer than he thought he was. I've read almost everything he wrote and don't really have much of a problem with it from an Editor's perspective. I always wanted him to write some stuff for me, but his contract with Outdoor Photographer prevented that. I did put one of his photos on our cover, though. We decided to flip the photo left to right to make it work better on the cover. Galen thought it was really funny that we got a bunch of letters complaining that we flipped it, since he didn't think it was a big deal. In retrospect I realized that we should have mentioned in the caption that we had flipped it with his permission to forestall the letters.
(One time on another magazine I worked on the art director flipped the cover shot to make a better composition. Unfortunately, it was a cover of Soccer star Pele, and had him kicking with the wrong foot and with the wrong number on his uniform!)
Bob
