Russ Colegrove Photography

Russ Colegrove is an award-winning landscape photographer with a creative eye that leads to other areas of photography. An early start as a professional photographer gave way to a 25-year engineering career designing and constructing some of the world’s most powerful and sophisticated machines.

A trip to Ireland proved to be a turning point. A place of terrible beauty, Ireland can be a photographer’s dream location and rekindled his spirit toward the art. He has been shooting professionally again for the last 24 years.

His subject range includes traditional landscapes and vistas but also includes other parts of the natural world from animals to plants to sunlit clouds and abstracts of the earth from above. Russ has spent many hours and days hiking the woods, mountains, coasts, canyons and valleys of the American West and Southwest, Alaska, Pacific Northwest, and the Southeast.

While focused on landscapes, his creative eye has followed other areas of photography. His Urbanscape work is not street photography but rather urban landscapes that lean into architectural photography. They are images of “the places we live in and the things we have made.” In his ‘My Worlds’ series Russ has created ‘Extraordinary worlds from ordinary scenes’.

Russ uses a full range of photographic techniques to capture the light; combining film, digital, color, B&W, monochromatic with the goal "to invoke for the viewer the same feelings I had from each instance and place.” He has recently started developing a new technique of deconstructing his photographs and rebuilding them as layered photo sculptures.

Russ’ work is sold through the internet, commission work, galleries, and exhibits at fine arts festivals. He has been recognized with multiple awards at these festivals. Numerous corporate art collections in Atlanta, Chicago, Houston, Kansas City, Pittsburgh, and Washington DC have invested in his work.