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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

Updated September 10, 2016
For 18 years now, I've been specializing in wilderness landscape photography.

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Originally Published June 21, 2011

Glenn Randall

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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. Rocky Nook published his book Dusk to Dawn: A Guide to Landscape Photography at Night in spring 2018. The second edition of his bookThe Art, Science, and Craft of Great Landscape Photography, was published by Rocky Nook in spring, 2020.
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