Kelly for Into the Wild (Patreon)

Finding a location for nature in LA can be hard.  I've found if I just plug "canyon" into google maps though I can usually find some place where I can escape the California sun.  

My shoot with Kelly we drove to a place I very much don't remember.  I was somewhere near the valley.  It was an intensely hot day, and we hiked along a cliffs edge overlooking the city.  I love the challenge of shooting in a new place.  The challenge of creating somewhere a lot of people just might walk past.  Not every location can be icebergs on the edge of a glacier in the arctic circle, but I do think every place has a feeling, and it is my job to capture that as best I can.

Kelly and I hiked through thick grass tall enough to block the late day sun, so we played around with shooting in it a lot.  Bedding down parts and shooting some really beautiful images.  I loved the feeling.  I haven't felt small in grass since I was a kid running through fields.  Shooting with the Sigma 50mm really let me feel like I was there in the moment, and in the photos as I worked on them later.

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