Where the Wild
Meets the Light

The last light of sunset reflecting across a quiet shoreline.

A deer pausing in green forest light.

A seal rising through bright blue Pacific water.

Two shorebirds standing beside still water and stone.

A duck floating through electric blue reflections.

Madronas framing a hidden pond in fresh Pacific Northwest snow.

A cow elk glancing back among lush Pacific Northwest ferns.

There is a special kind of quiet that arrives when daylight begins to fade. The sky turns violet and rose, the forest becomes a silhouette, and Mount Rainier rests above the water as the last colors of the evening settle across the landscape.

Waves rolling in at blue hour as the last light fades.

Lenticular clouds capping Mount Rainier in the first gold light.

A last line of sunset fire glowing behind silhouetted firs near Chinook Pass.

The Seattle skyline glowing at sunset across Elliott Bay.

A young black-tailed deer looking back across green grass.

Anvil Peak at dusk, framed by evergreens at Chinook Pass.

Molten gold breaks through storm clouds behind Anvil Peak at Chinook Pass.

For a brief moment, the fading daylight transforms Mount Rainier into a crown of gold. Warm sunlight spills across the mountain's rugged slopes while the surrounding forest and waterfront settle into shadow. The contrast captures one of the Pacific Northwest's most memorable sights: a familiar mountain made extraordinary by the changing light.

Boats and masts mirrored in still blue harbor water.

A lone fir beneath swirling storm clouds before dawn.

Lenticular clouds and morning mist around Mount Rainier.

A honeybee hovering over a bright pink dahlia in summer light.

Storm clouds glowing over a still, mirror-like lake at night.

A bold, icy-blue gull portrait from one rushed evening at Titlow.

Snow falling over a still lake lined with snowy evergreens.

Cormorants on every post of the old Titlow pier at sunset.

Some places seem untouched by time. Beneath a vast Washington sky, Mount Rainier rises above a dark evergreen forest, its snow-covered slopes mirrored in the quiet water below. Rendered in black and white, this landscape strips away distraction and reveals the power, contrast, and stillness of the Pacific Northwest.

Mount Rainier catching the first light above a sleeping evergreen forest.

A great blue heron with its catch beside weathered driftwood.

Three elk grazing in a quiet meadow framed by old trees.

A gull on guard at Titlow Beach, staring straight down the lens.

Teal skies and golden water over the pilings at Titlow Beach.

The sun bursts through an old piling at Titlow Beach, Tacoma.

Storm clouds over Anvil Peak and Chinook Pass, in dramatic black and white.

The sun bursting over a distant ridgeline beneath heavy clouds.