MEET THe PHOTOGRAPHER
I'm a landscape and nature photographer based in the mountains of Western North Carolina, where I've spent the last several years learning the light, the seasons, and the particular way fog moves through a holler at dawn. My work spans three collections: the Appalachian highlands I call home, the intimate botanical details that reward anyone willing to slow down and look, and the far-flung landscapes I've chased across Norway, Iceland, the Faroe Islands, and beyond.
My ongoing documentary project, Vanishing Winters, sits at the center of my practice — a long-term body of work bearing witness to what warming temperatures are doing to winter landscapes in the Northern Hemisphere. It's part elegy, part love letter, and entirely rooted in the belief that photographs can make people feel the weight of what's at stake before they've read a single word of explanation.
The same practice that drives me up a mountain at 4am to catch the light also shapes how I approach client work — because great commercial photography asks exactly the same question: what does this need to make someone feel? I partner with hospitality properties, destination marketing organizations, and outdoor brands to create visual content that earns attention and drives real results. A decade of marketing experience means I understand not just how to make a beautiful image, but how to make it work.
My goal, across all of it, is the same one that gets me out of bed before sunrise: to capture the moments of profound beauty that are everywhere in the natural world — and to inspire others to go find them for themselves.
From the mountains of Northern New Mexico
to the Mountains of WEstern North Carolina and beyond.
I was born and raised in Los Alamos, NM and lived in Oregon, Colorado, and South Carolina before landing in Asheville in 2004. I picked up my first camera in high school, shooting pictures of nature, students, and athletic events for her high school yearbook (on film, no less). I didn't become serious about photography again until 2020, when I started taking my camera along on weekly hikes all over WNC. Today, the two activities are inextricably combined, and being outdoors with the camera is my favorite place to be.
Why 'momento Mori'?
If you aren’t familiar with Stoic Philosophy or aren’t fluent in Latin (neither am I), Memento Mori translates loosely to “remember you must die.” Yep, sounds morbid. It’s quite the opposite, actually.
See, by keeping the very real fact that we will all at some point cease to exist top of mind in our day to day lives we are more inclined to live better now. To pay attention. To find the joy. To take the trip, to say the words, to quit the unfulfilling job, run the marathon or hike the AT or master the violin. Memento Mori reminds us that life is for the living. Now. Today.
Photography as an art, and a practice, and a way of being has only reinforced that philosophy. It’s a way of seeing. Outdoor photography particularly is all about being in and attempting to translate a particular fleeting moment. So 'Momento Mori' is a spin on the latin version, a reminder that total presence is required. Nothing else will do. It's now or never. Because both life and photography are all about the moment.
