Landscape photography / field notes / road logs

IN FRAME
BEFORE DARK

Landscapes, weather, and the places my family and I find on the way there.

Selected Work // 2026

Frames worth
keeping.

A small, ruthless edit of the photographs I want people to remember me by. The archive can be huge. The portfolio should not be.

Selective sunlight illuminating a mountain beneath dark surrounding clouds
Current arc // Mountains

First Light

A break in the weather isolates the mountain from the ridges around it.

Mountains // SELECTED WORK
A lone tree isolated in dense fog above warm grass
FRAME 01 // One Tree
A mountain road leading into visible rays of sunlight
FRAME 02 // Into the Light
A pier leading toward a lighthouse beneath dramatic sunset clouds
FRAME 03 // Last Light at the Pier
A rocky creek leading through autumn forest toward a waterfall
FRAME 04 // Upstream
Two mountain peaks rising above a sea of cloud
FRAME 05 // Fogline
A lighthouse casting a beam beneath a star-filled night sky
FRAME 06 // Night Watch
Journey 001 // North Carolina

APPALACHIAN
FOG

Wet roads, low cloud, early autumn and a day where the mountains kept appearing and disappearing.

Field Notes // Blog

Things worth
writing down.

Short essays, trip journals, planning notes, gear thoughts and lessons learned in the field.

BEHIND THE FRAME // 001

The day the Blue Ridge disappeared into fog

A field note from a wet October day when the mountains kept vanishing and the roads, rivers and trees had to carry the photographs.

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FIELD NOTE // 002

Why I built In Frame Before Dark

Thousands of photographs should not live forever inside a Lightroom catalog.

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FIELD NOTE // 003

Why I keep looking for mountains that aren't here

On dominant subjects, Appalachian overlooks, and why some compositions become easier once the landscape gives you room to move.

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