Featured Photographer

Herman Krieger

Rick Hazelton smiling and laying his head down on the bar next to beer pitcher

Herman Krieger is a photographer living in Eugene, Oregon. Photography has long held a fascination for Herman Krieger. After starting as a high school photographer, he worked as a photo lab technician during his teens in Detroit in the 1940s and served during WWII as an instructor in the U.S. Army Air Corps photo school. Earning a degree in Mathematics from the University of California in Berkeley, he spent 30 years as a computer programmer in Europe. Upon retirement, he and his wife moved to Eugene, Oregon, where he enrolled in the University of Oregon earning a BFA in photography, and became an active member of the PhotoZone Gallery in Eugene, and the Willamette Valley Photo Guild in Corvallis. His photo essays of towns in Oregon were featured in two OPB Oregon ArtBeat programs. His photo essays in black and white can also be seen online at https://members.efn.org/~hkrieger.

Some images from Randlett's collection:

Rippling [detail of concrete culvert], Eugene, Oregon

Frances O'Brien looking out her office-door window, Blue River, Oregon

Fire hydrant next to stack of doghouses, Eugene, Oregon

Rick Hazelton smiling and laying his head down on the bar next to beer pitcher

Ford 250 camper with canoe on top

Crossing the Bike Bridge [man crawling on bridge girder]

Decorative wavy brick wall along street, Willamette Street, Eugene, Oregon

Amazon Retroglyph [graffiti on retaining wall], Eugene, Oregon