Size: 18” x 36” with a 1” white border on Hahnemuhle 300gsm cotton rag paper

Signed & stamped in verso

Sometimes the hunt is local, out your backdoor, to the mountains on your horizon. Here the distance from your everyday is not the creative force, it is an afternoon storm, a recognizing in something out your window that stirs the need to just go, to go shoot.

I had a professor once at the photography school I attended in Santa Barbara say that you should be able to find inspiration in your backyard. Like Thoreau never traveling farther afield than Maine and espousing the pleasure in the discovery of what is around you. It helps when your backyard is Bend Oregon…

I found myself twenty five minutes after leaving my front door wandering the backside of Mt. Bachelor in a Spring thunderstorm. I stood while rain dripped down my face watching this storm undulate and swirl. The last of winter was dying but it did not feel like the birth of spring but rather like a winter tantrum, a reluctant season not willing to let go.

Location: Sisters Wilderness

Nikon D810, Voigtlander 40mm, 5 vertical frames stitched