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 the resorts of Snowbasin and Powder Mountain. His corporate clients include the City of Ogden, Ogden Visitors and Convention Bureau, Grizzly Graphics, Amer Sports, Goode Skis, Utah Magazines and a Utah billboard campaign in the east and midwest, to attract employees to call Utah their home. Richard is currently on a  national gallery tour of public libraries across the country. "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, bu 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 the particular place or thing that I am capturing.