Monday, May 18, 2026 @ 7pm
Zoom Meeting – Randy Bradbury
When I’m abroad with a camera, I see the world differently. Or, perhaps, it’s more accurate to say I look at the world differently. Ansel Adams talked of visualization and I admit that in my typically skeptical journalist’s mind, I might have done a little internal scoff when I first read that. But in fact that’s the best way to describe what I’m doing with a camera. I see and appreciate the “things” of the world. The vistas, the tableaux, the details. But I reflexively, perhaps even unconsciously, frame them into potential images. The light. The shadow. The composition. The crop. I won’t pretend to tell you as artists how to realize your visions, but perhaps in this session I can give you a few ideas to consider as you visualize the world in your image.
Zoom meeting opens at 6:30 pm for a social time before the presentation. Visitors are always welcome.
Presented by Randy Bradbury
I like to say I got into photography because my dad wasn’t. My parents published weekly newspapers in the Dakotas, and while each had a darkroom, my dad stuck with a Polaroid. Those darkrooms became my playground. I learned on Speed Graphics and 4×5 film, growing from rough prints into a love of black and white and the Zone System.
My career began in newspapers, moved into advertising, and ended in public relations. Along the way I lived in the Dakotas, Kansas, and the Pacific Northwest. Today, my wife Denice and I live in Spain. I shoot digital color, though I still look for any excuse to return to monochrome.