Meet Randy
Since childhood, I’ve been fascinated by the stars. Back then, I dreamt of alien civilizations, and traveling vast distances through space. I took photographs of the stars then too, capturing a particular nebula or galaxy, and wondering what it might be like to be there.
We live on a tiny planet, in comparison. But that planet is becoming complex, loud, fast, and more and more confusing. Sometimes it feels truly overwhelming. So, I look for ways to slow it down, to quiet it. Whether it’s listening to music, playing my guitar, or even crafting a guitar by hand in my basement workshop, I find that peace.
When I go out at night and set up my camera under the stars, the world gets quieter and slows down. That immense star field over my head grounds me. The images that I create now are my attempt to capture not only what I see, but what I am feeling in the moment. I try to stop time, put away the distractions, and show how it feels to be part of this vast universe.
Randy’s Biography
Randy Morrow is a photographer living in Ottawa, Canada, specializing in nightscape photography with a particular interest in the Milky Way.
His fascination with nighttime photography goes back to his high school days where he photographed the stars and planets with a Nikon 35 mm film camera connected to the school’s borrowed telescope with a homemade adaptor.
He is an alumni of Kristine Rose Photography’s Night Photography Academy, where he took several courses starting in 2021 (during the pandemic), where he learned the methodologies of planning, composing, shooting, and editing nightscape images.