Looking Up, Telluride Size:48x84 This sunrise was quiet

This sunrise was quiet

It isn’t a spacecraft - it’s an old cement mixer

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

The Milky Way was photographed later

This image was created using a focus stack of approximately 10 to 15 exposures

Looking Up, Telluride Size:48x84 This sunrise was quietTelluride, 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