Richard Caldwell grew up in Ann Arbor, Michigan. His pull to the mountains filled with light deep powder brought him to Utah as a student at the University of Utah. After a successful career in real estate in Michigan, Richard returned to Utah in 2002 to experience the Olympics and pursue his two great passions, skiing and photography.

His work can be seen at many places of business, many homes and in many resorts. His corporate clients include the City of Ogden, Ogden Visitors and Convention Bureau, Rainbow Gardens, Harley & Bucks, Carlos & Harleys, Marriott Hotels, Grizzly Graphics, Amer Sports, Goode Skis, National Ski Patrol, Diamond Peaks Heli Ski Adventures, Descente, DNA, Hot Chillys, Nordica, Head, Tyrolia, Utah Magazines and a Utah billboard campaign, to attract employees to call Utah their home. Richard is currently on a  national gallery tour of specific select locations throuhout the country. "The Impact Images National Gallery Tour."

I came to Utah because of the "big view"---the west. It seems that this is one of the few places you can get a kind of expanse that I find fascinating. You can shoot with a wide-angle lens, but that gives a kind of distortion to space. So I started blending pictures together to create a "panoramic photomontage"---big, like the view, but without the wide-angle distortion. I choose my subjects carefully, there has to be something in the scene or the light that creates a passion for me in that special place that I have the spirit to capture & share.