Looking Up, Telluride Size:30x52 and the conditions that followed

and the conditions that followed were just as compelling

and the drop is immediate

carved deep into the high desert of the Colorado Plateau

the Milky Way appears where it would have crossed the sky long before modern light pollution reshaped the night

Looking Up, Telluride Size:30x52 and the conditions that followedTelluride, 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