Hi, I'm Ranga!!
I'm a PhD student in Computer Science at CU Boulder. Most of my time goes into research and teaching. Photography is the thing that pulls me out of all that. It gets me to places I would never otherwise be, usually at hours no reasonable person should be awake.
I mostly shoot landscapes and wildlife. Some night skies too. I love the big dramatic scenes. But over the years I've grown fond of the quieter ones as well. The kind of places most people drive right past without a second look.
You can see a small selection of my work here. But the images are only half of it. The other half is the adventure it took to get there. Very few of these happened by accident. Most of them start as an idea. Then the idea turns into an obsession. My friends and family get pulled into it too, and before long we're spending months figuring out how to actually make it happen. The planning, the logistics, the waiting for conditions to line up. And the many times they don't, which just means we try again. I write about some of these in the Behind the Shot section. Honestly, those stories might be my favorite part of all this.
I'm lucky to have friends and family who love the outdoors as much as I do. They've endured a lot for my ideas. The early alarms, the long drives, standing around in the cold while I wait for light. And somehow, they're always the ones encouraging me to go chase the next one. A lot of my favorite images exist because of them.
- Sriranga Ramaswamy