"Having shot in locations with such stark geometric patterns for so long, going into the forest, initially I was like, Oh, my gosh, some of the trees are not straight,' he says, laughing. They are messing up my photograph!"
"In so much of my previous work, I've been an outsider looking in on something, and this time I was really inside it, he says."
"Although the subject was dead trees, there was still so much life, he says. It was magical from an imagery perspective."
A contract photographer spent almost 25 years working for NASA, photographing moon rocks and documenting the James Webb Space Telescope's construction. Much of that work occurred in clean rooms with rigid protocols and highly controlled conditions. The photographer entered dense Oregon forests to document a long-term study of decaying logs and initially reacted to the irregular forms of trees. The assignment was chosen to bring the photographer closer to nature and to communicate environmental change. Careful attention to how light fell through the canopy and controlled exposure produced sharp images that revealed abundant life within dead wood.
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