Aspen — San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA.

Photographing forests is not something I’m good at, but I definitely got a lot of practice on this trip. I took hundreds of shots, and this might be the one I dislike the least.

Lone Tree - Yukon Territory, Canada.

Taken from a moving car on our way back to Whitehorse. If we didn’t need to catch our flights out, it would have been a great morning for more moody photography.

Aspen in Morning Light — San Juan Mountains, Colorada, USA.

Sunset on an Eroded Mountain — Colorado.

A big credit for this image goes to Andrei Trocan, who not only invited me on this trip with him to Colorado, but knew exactly the right time to photograph this composition.

Aspenglow — San Juan Mountains, Colorado, USA.

When I first arrived in Colorado for this trip, I was awestruck at the yellow aspen all around. Walking through woods like, the perfectly golden leaves would disperse the light and glow. It felt like being in a fairytale. I wanted to take one photo that captured that feeling, that gave the sense of magic of being there, and this was the best I could muster.

Hall of Mosses — Olympic National Park, Washington, USA.

In general, as a landscape photographer, I dislike doing photography around many other people. There are a lot of reasons for this, chief among them is that it damages the experience of being in nature for me, which makes me less inspired to capture a memory.

Another reason is that I’m self-conscious, although I’m getting better at that. The Hall of Mosses is an incredibly popular, crowded, family-friendly trail, though spectacular. But camping at the campgrounds adjacent to the trail, my friend Jake Schual-Berke and I were able to come early morning on a Monday, and spent over an hour on the 1-mile trail without seeing another person. In order to get this shot, I actually lay down at the base of this tree to find a perspective I liked, something I never would’ve done with strangers around.

Autumn Sunset in the Woods — Brighton, Michigan, USA.

This image is definitely quite a happy accident. I looked up a park, about 30 minutes away from my home, to photograph fall colors in sunset. I typed in the name of the park to Google Maps, and a weird bug happened that I’d never seen before. The location Google showed me for that park was correct, but when I started the navigation directions, it changed the location completely! It took me somewhere else, a few miles away from where I had intended. Still, with light running out, I decided to hike through the woods, and came upon this spot.

Bench in the Fall — Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Confluence of Seasons — Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.

Another photograph of unusual conditions in Ann Arbor, this was shot in mid-November 2019, the day after Ann Arbor had the most single-day snowfall in November ever. In this part of Southeastern Michigan, there isn’t much overlap of winter and fall. Unlike in other places, most of autumn color in the leaves has fallen off the trees before much snow starts coming in. So I drove around, hoping to find an image which captured this unusual circumstance. This image doesn’t really show much fall color, but I think that it’s still unusual for the standing corn stalks and soft snow on the ground. And it’s certainly unique within my photography, far more minimalist than my usual work.

The editing of this photo was partially inspired by the work of Benjamin Everett, one of my favorite photographers/digital artists.

Mossy Maple — Hall of Mosses Trail, Olympic National Park, Washington.

Mount Baker — Mt. Baker-Snoqualmie National Forest, Washington, USA.