Every photographer knows the name Ansel Adams. But landscape photographers should learn from this photographer known as the “35mm Ansel Adams"

A color Galen Rowell image with a black-and-white image from Ansel Adams.

I’m a massive fan of the black-and-white landscape photography that helped bring the artistic genre into the mainstream, especially from the likes of Ansel Adams. His black-and-white work truly embodies the phrase “composition is king,” and I think the lack of color makes you hone in on this.

But there's another historic photographer whose name is less well-known that I think more landscape photographers should know: Galen Rowell.