Looking Up, Telluride Size:48x84 This image is a stitched

This image is a stitched panorama created from a sequence of photographs captured in place

light began to pour into the sandstone bowl

The environment is harsh and unforgiving

the Milky Way becomes visible to the naked eye during the right season

Looking Up, Telluride Size:48x84 This image is a stitchedTelluride, Colorado This photograph was made in Telluride during autumn, looking straight up into an aspen grove. The original plan for the trip was to photograph fall color paired with fresh mountain snow, the combination Telluride is known for. That snow never came. Rather than chase scenes that werent going to materialize, I shifted direction. I leaned into abstraction and proximity, letting the forest itself become the subject. Using an ultra wide