Liminal

There are certain themes that thread through my work. I’m a landscape photographer that’s profoundly appreciative of our natural world. I adore color, finding it joyous and comforting. And I seek out places that are wild, remote, and spacious. Recently I’ve begun exploring image making during that brief period occurring between night and day.

I wanted to express the meditative qualities to be found during blue hour, when it’s calm and quiet, the light filled with subtlety as it slowly shifts in hue and brightness. I find it deeply calming and peaceful, and hope these images impart the same wistful feeling.

I’ve come to describe my work as emotive portraits of place rather than standard landscape photography. I’m not concerned with landmarks or a technically perfect shot. Instead, I want to recreate the feeling of “fernweh,” the longing, the desire, to explore distant places you’ve never been. Photography is about revisiting that yearning. Vistas with distant horizons always bring me to this mystical place. I invite you to visualize yourself there: feel the wildness, the stillness, the breeze sliding over your skin, to wonder what’s beyond the horizon. Drink it in and imagine.

This series will be on display at Columbia City Gallery from May 12 - June 20, 2021

Black & White

These are a little series of vernacular farm architecture from a summer visit to the Palouse area of Eastern Washington. The images just begged to be in black an white.

Urban Horitculture

While searching out the perfect botanical specimens for my other work, I've come across strange suburban plant life in my travels. These are quirky, ominous, or just plain weird plants that have been nurtured or shaped into the fantastical wonders to be found in Suburbia.