Outdoor photographer and author of Dusk to Dawn www.glennrandall.com

GLENN RANDALL

Glenn Randall

Above: The Milky Way appears over Lone Eagle Peak creating a reflection in Mirror Lake, Indian Peaks Wilderness, Colorado, USA.

Glenn Randall

A photographer, educator and writer based in Colorado in the USA, Glenn Randall has had his work published in Outdoor Photographer, the Los Angeles Times Magazine, National Geographic Adventure, the New York Times Magazine and many more. Ahead of a serialisation of content from the second edition of his book Dusk To Dawn: A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night, we talk to him about after-dark photography and what first attracted him to the medium.

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Left: Geminid meteor shower over the Sangre de Cristo Range and Great Sand Dunes National Park, Colorado.

Glenn Randall

What was your route into photography and can you tell us about your journey so far?

As a teenager, I was inspired by the example of Galen Rowell, who managed to combine mountaineering and photography in a highly successful career. I graduated with a degree in journalism in December 1978 and made the naïve decision to begin freelancing immediately as a writer and photographer, specialising in the outdoors. In truth, I was primarily a writer, but I thought of myself as a photographer as well. Then in 1985, I lost an assignment from Magazine. The editor told me, and I’m paraphrasing here, ‘The writing is fine but the photography stinks’. I decided it was time to either sell the camera gear or learn to use it a whole lot better.