Building Harmony: A Photographer’s Vision of Nature and Home

This is me.  Turning my face to the sunrise with my frozen beard.  

Being outside is my happy place.

I didn’t go to Harvard, MIT, or Boston College, so I don’t have those connections that typically lead to business. I went to The Evergreen State College, a small progressive school in the shadow of Mt. Rainier in Olympia, Washington.

During my senior year, while normal go getters spent weekends going out drinking and building relationships with future clients, I chose a different path. Most Sunday mornings, my friend Greg would pick me up, and we’d drive up long forgotten logging roads. With our mountain bikes strapped to the car, we’d head out to explore.

This is who I am.

I feel most alive in nature. It heals me.  It connects me to something greater. 

Once, Greg and I stopped to witness the slow moving islands of clouds collide with some low peaks, slowly wrapping around the peak until it was enveloped.  

Another time,  we were biking near Mt. St. Helens and came across a herd of elk. We got off our bikes and sat silently, just watching, feeling completely present in the moment.

These experiences are part of my core. They remind me of what truly matters, and they guide my creative vision.

That’s why I want to share something more through my photography. Not just nature, but homes and spaces that exist in harmony with it. Homes with living walls and green roofs. Structures built with less impactful materials, like hempcrete. Designs that honor the environment instead of exploiting it.

I’m weary of watching stands of trees getting replaced by a monoculture of pointless  close cropped grass with a box dropped on top and labeled a "home." There’s a better way to live—one that reflects the beauty of, and connects with, the natural world.

If you’re a builder, architect, or visionary who shares this connection, I’d love to collaborate. Let’s create something meaningful, something that belongs to the earth as much as it belongs to us.