A Mother’s Love was taken in the soft, early morning hours of May 2023 in Appalachian Ohio. A quiet hillside barn. A small gathering of family. And one powerful moment: a mare lowering her head gently, instinctively, toward her newborn colt—her first.
The Longhorn was photographed at the Belmont County Longhorn Show in July 2024. He was an adult bull—massive, composed, and unmistakably proud. He placed extremely well that day, but even before the judge’s decision, it was clear: he was built to be remembered.
Good Evening Sea was captured off the coast of Dominica in December 2012, during my time traveling with Semester at Sea. It was our final days at sea—those strange, golden hours when everything should have felt light. But that day carried something heavier.
Ephemeral Grace was captured on Friday, August 22, 2025. I had stepped outside and noticed a monarch butterfly hanging still beneath a shrub. It felt almost too delicate to be real, suspended there in the late summer light.
Storm Ride was captured in 2019, deep in the hills of Appalachian Ohio. A young rider—undeterred—was riding uphill as storm clouds built behind her. The air had shifted. The kind of quiet that only comes before a storm had settled in. And still, she rode forward.
Golden Silence was photographed in a quiet dahlia garden in Hilliard, Ohio, in late summer 2023. The air was warm, the world hushed. This single orange bloom—lit by the slant of afternoon sun—seemed to radiate from within. Flame-toned petals opened in perfect rhythm, unfurling like a breath held and released.
