The Rarest Light

Look for the gap and the glow, and you’ll find light that transforms a scene into something extraordinary

Text & Photography By Glenn Randall

Published June 21, 2011
Updated September 10, 2016

For 18 years now, I've been specializing in wilderness landscape photography.

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Glenn Randall is a wilderness landscape photographer whose primary subject is Colorado. He has been photographing every corner of the state since 1993 and recently completed a seven-year project to shoot sunrise from the summit of all 54 of Colorado’s 14,000-foot peaks. Farcountry Press published those images in Sunrise from the Summit: First Light on Colorado’s Fourteeners. His most recent book, The Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography, was published by Rocky Nook.

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