The Art Box - Episode 10 - Meet Randy Bauman

Randy Bauman, a landscape photographer for more than 40 years, enjoys sharing the beauty he captures through the camera lens.

“Landscape photographers will know what I mean,” he says, “a photograph that captures the very essence of the time and place it was shot. A photograph that allows you to smell the air and feel the ground and immerse yourself in that place where you were when you pressed the shutter button. If you do it right, the viewer is immersed in that same place and time.”

He got his first camera at age 10 and by the time he was in college he spent hours in the university’s darkroom, learning about composition and what Ansel Adams called “the range of light.”

“Photoshop replaced the darkroom but lighting, composition, contrast and color balance are still the keys that separate a ‘snapshot’ from a photograph,” he added. “I still do my own printing on a professional photo printer at home because it’s the only way I can assure the final print matches what I saw and felt.”

Randy’s photographs have received awards from New Mexico Magazine and displayed in art galleries and other venues throughout the Southwest.