In photography, there is a quiet paradox: staying fully present while simultaneously performing an invisible choreography of decisions to capture an image. If you’re lucky, you’ll experience those rare moments behind the lens where everything aligns, just for a moment…then the light changes, and it’s gone just as quickly as it came.

Nature photography has formed the perfect compliment to my studio work, instilling an ethic for extensive preplanning while leaving room for adaptability. Beyond this, it also requires the surrender of photographic control so familiar to a studio environment.

It’s a craft that often requires patience, awareness, and extreme attention to detail, but other times it requires a full-out sprint down a treacherous trail, photo gear in tow because you thought you’d have enough time to photograph the cliff-strewn lighthouse and make it back to the beach for sunset, only to find the light is fading fast so you end up booking it through the forest like Daniel Day-Lewis in Last of the Mohicans…

America’s lands have left an indelible mark in my development as a photographer and subsequently as a human being: the Oregon Coast stirred something ancient in me, the stars of the Mojave revealed a universal theater, and the birds of the Everglades showed me a true sanctuary. In the end, we feel the world as much as we see it, and I continually strive to create photographs that carry that weight.