
First Light
A break in the weather isolates the mountain from the ridges around it.
Landscapes, weather, and the places my family and I find on the way there.
A small, ruthless edit of the photographs I want people to remember me by. The archive can be huge. The portfolio should not be.

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






Wet roads, low cloud, early autumn and a day where the mountains kept appearing and disappearing.
Short essays, trip journals, planning notes, gear thoughts and lessons learned in the field.
A field note from a wet October day when the mountains kept vanishing and the roads, rivers and trees had to carry the photographs.
Thousands of photographs should not live forever inside a Lightroom catalog.
On dominant subjects, Appalachian overlooks, and why some compositions become easier once the landscape gives you room to move.