Ron Richardson
Utata Member
Bio
Photography came late in my life (year 24 of 26 total), and thus I am still learning. It's been extremely fun and satisfying and has provided me with a creative outlet from the logical thinking required of me everyday in my regular programming career.
I've met so many wonderful people through photography and hope to meet many more. I've yet to find my "niche" or direction, and have attempted many different facets of photography. Currently, my photostream is just a hodgepodge of photos.
One day, I will find my direction, but until then, I'm just living in the moment and snapping the shutter at everything.
Testimonial
I first encountered Ron's work this past winter, completely by accident, not long after I joined Flickr. I had been geo-tagging some outdoor photos and noticed that he'd taken some in the fall of 2006 and tagged them as being from the same location. I was taken immediately by both the technical and the artistic skill behind his pictures.
It's become something of a weird pattern -- I'll take a photo and find later that he's already shot a similar subject in a similar spot. In one case, we even gave identical titles to two very similar photos. (I swear I wasn't peeking, Ron!)
In those cases where I get to see his take on something I've just tried to capture, I'm always impressed by his perspective on the subject at hand. In particular, I recommend taking a look at the careful consideration of depth-of-field in some of his shots. Ron can conjure up glittering bokeh like a magician producing flowers.
Ron and I have gotten acquainted a little bit over the past few months, and I have to say that he's the quintessential Utatan -- talented, cordial, irreverent and happily obsessed with capturing the world through a lens. When it comes to joining organizations, I usually stand by Groucho Marx's maxim -- "I refuse to join any club that would have me as a member." When I saw the Utata logo on Ron's profile, though, I had to ask him about it. He recommended you to me, and I'm so glad that he did. Ron deserves cake!
Testimonial written by Jeremy Sloan
