Looking Up, Telluride Size:30x52 and the drop is immediate

and the drop is immediate

carved deep into the high desert of the Colorado Plateau

Human presence here has always been sparse and hard-earned

The sky filled with intense airglow

shaped entirely by timing

Looking Up, Telluride Size:30x52 and the drop is immediateTelluride, 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