Dietmar Krueger was born and raised in Berlin, Germany. His lifelong passion began at the age of twelve when his parents gave him a Zeiss Ikon box camera.

In February 1984, Dietmar came to the Southwest for a three-month expedition to capture images of historic mining towns. It was then, as he shot photos of the abandoned structures of Bodie and other locations in California and the Southwest that Dietmar realized his true home was the United States, specifically the west coast. It was also during this trip that he saw Mono Lake and Death Valley for the first time and captured their natural beauty.

Dietmar soon moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where he lived for many years, working in a professional photo studio in Marin County, as well as running his own studio concentrating on commercial photography, portraits, and art reproductions. During this time, Dietmar also worked as a freelance photographer, contributing to several journals and newspapers. He has always lived in coastal communities over the intervening years, venturing out periodically into remote areas of the Southwest and other destinations on photographic expeditions to capture the beauty and grandeur of the natural world.

In 1998 his image "Mono Lake" placed first in the "Best in Creativity" category for the Andre Schellenberg Gallery of Digital Art Competition in Orlando, Florida, where he received the "Andre Schellenberg Award." Raising public consciousness of Mono Lake's plight had often been in the forefront of Dietmar's mind when creating his haunting images of tufa formations, so it was very gratifying to him (and an instance of synchronicity) when in the same year the California State Water Resources Control Board finally implemented real and lasting protection for the lake.(Even though Mono Lake State Preserve has existed since 1981, water-hungry communities continued to divert water from Mono Lake for human use.)

Tufas in Mono Lake, stone monuments and slot canyons of the Colorado Plateau, sand dunes in Death Valley, and other natural features of the Southwest continue to be among Dietmar's favorite subjects. His passion for catching a shaft of sunlight upon a curving stone surface at just the exact moment reveals the desert's stunning palette of deep reds, purples, blues, yellows, and oranges.

Over the years, Dietmar's work has been featured in gallery shows in Bolinas, San Francisco and Solvang, California, as well as Newport, Oregon, Cannon Beach Gallery, Oregon, Salt and Paper, Manzanita, Oregon, Orlando, Florida and currently at the Riverine Studio Gallery in Wheeler, Oregon. Since 1986, he has been conducting workshops and photo expeditions and sharing his expertise and knowledge with other photographers. Dietmar's study of photography begun all those years ago at the age of twelve and expanded upon before he left Berlin and has continued to expand as he stays current with today's latest photographic technology.

Dietmar currently resides in the Pacific Northwest, where he operates "dstudio-images" and co-owns Salt and Paper, a specialty art supply and gift shop in Manzanita, Oregon, with his wife, Stephanie. Prints of Dietmar's photography are available at the store for viewing and purchase. In addition to photographic expeditions, Dietmar's current work includes studio photography, digital photo restoration, graphic design, and custom printing. The Zeiss Ikon he received in his youth is still a proud member of his vintage camera collection, and remains fully functional.