Randy Craig is an art photographer living in Portland, Oregon. He takes photographs of nature and people to capture their beauty and be able to share it with others. He enjoys traveling immensely if for no other reason than to be taken by the beauty that he finds where his journeys lead him.

We feel that Randy is spot on about wanting to capture beauty to the extent possible through his photography. Randy prefers not to let the beauty that exists in this world to slip past him. He would like it for this beauty, as it were, to be preserved in his photography and to go on forever.

For Randy, his hiking and his photography go together. Hiking takes Randy to places that he otherwise might not be able to get to by the other, more common means of transport. Randy likes to be kept guessing what lies up the hill or around the bend. He does not mind getting pleasantly surprised at all.

Randy has the spirit of an artist. He has the desire to follow and surrender to his artistic inclinations and he enjoys the freedom and opportunity to do so. He reflects all this in his photography, from the subjects that he chooses to the images that he succeeds in capturing.

In the tug of war between those who say that photography is an art and those who say that it is a science, we expect Randy to stand by those who say that photography is an art. But Randy is not at all closed to science and its great power. Randy has especially shown openness to technological advances in the field of photography.

Advances in technology can be an issue for photographers especially those who have been doing photography for quite a bit of time. Artists are especially susceptible to being averse to technological advances, but not Randy. He recognizes the triumph that these advances represent and gladly welcomes them.

Randy’s home website is www.randycraigphotography.com. At this website, Randy shares just some of the thousands of images that he has taken through the years. Randy makes available galleries of photographs of the delightful grace that nature and people have to offer. Randy also takes the opportunity to give us some food for thought as he discusses his philosophy as an art photographer with an eye for beauty.

We will be exploring Randy’s work and philosophy further in the subsequent parts of this four part series on him. In particular, we will examine his ideas on photography, beauty and the controversial subject of nudes in photography.

From Randy Craig.

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