I TURN MEDITATIVE MOMENTS IN NATURE INTO BEAUTIFUL ART FOR YOUR EMPTY WALLS — because you deserve to dream, even on your busiest days.
Years ago, before I ever had a gallery in Seattle, before I received a Master Fine Art Photographer distinction and before I saw my work exhibited all across the world — from the ancient streets of Athens, Greece, to a giant billboard in New York Times Square — I never thought in my wildest dreams I would end up being a full-time artist…
You see… I learned to walk near a sea that’s 5000 miles away — in Hamburg, a German port town known as the “Gate to the World”. It’s a creed that changed the course of my life. When I was 23, I took my innate knack for dreaming big and moved halfway across the globe to do what many have done before me: Seek my life’s true fortunes in the American West
It was there where I first read the poet Gary Snyder’s maxim: Nature is not a place to visit. It is home. When I arrived in the wide and wild open spaces of the West, I found my home. During those first weeks and months, it was my camera that helped me make sense of my new surroundings — it was the tool that translated the foreign into the familiar.
Along the way, I learned to appreciate the landscape as a silent retreat that rewarded talking less. On those Western trails, the quiet introvert in me finally experienced the comfort that not knowing what to say was no longer a flaw but an expression of affiliation and admiration. I felt calm, understood, relieved, sheltered — the complete opposite of how I experience much of the deafening noise of what has become our everyday life.
Out there, I felt A Sense of Home. It’s what kindled a lifelong pursuit: A passion to photograph the natural beauty of the West, but to do so in a way that my images allow you to feel at home, at peace, too.
And so, these days, I use my camera to turn meditative moments in nature into beautiful art for your empty walls. As our lives seem to get busier and busier by the day, I want my work to offer you cherished moments of pause and contemplative calm — almost like a meditation.
That goal is also why I don’t really call myself a landscape photographer — even though I photograph primarily landscapes.
Let me explain.
When I create a photograph, I don’t start the process by looking for a beautiful place. No. I look, first and foremost, for that beautiful calm state that I know certain places in nature put me in, and only then, when I feel myself entering that meditative mindset, do I figure out how to use my camera to make that emotional connection to the landscape in front of me look beautiful.
I flip the almost accidental “oh, that’s pretty” -> point -> shoot -> figure out meaning later/if ever process most other landscape photographers use on its head. The result is, usually, a much deeper image of a beautiful place that builds an emotional connection lasting far beyond the initial wow.
In fact, I believe this is THE crucial step to creating art that becomes a window to your Happy Place once we hang it in your home.
You see…
And one thing you should know about me is that I am pretty stubborn… Just because we live in a world now that usually rewards the loudest voices won’t stop me from using my art to try and bring back as many brief moments of intention and quiet contemplation into our lives as I possibly can.
After years and years of refining this guided-by-intention process, today each of my images is a vision of a quiet place, a meditative moment, a retreat back to the places you see when you close your eyes, a sanctuary for stressed souls. The moment you lay eyes on these artworks, they are meant to take you to your Happy Place, to redirect your scattered focus, to rebalance that which you must do with that which you dream of. That's THE WINDOW EFFECT DIFFERENCE.
Over the last decade, I’ve helped dozens and dozens of homeowners transform empty or stressful spaces into their daily sanctuaries.
- Katie’s dark basement guest room that guests now fight over.
- Mari’s Seattle office, where three Kauai pieces instantly take her home to Hawaii.
- Bryan’s bedroom, where a large foggy rainforest image creates the kind of calming PNW-inspired retreat he envisioned his sleeping space to be.
I’d be honored to help you create the same.
So... Where Do You Start?
With some inspiration! And I've got just the tool for that — my ART EXPLORER Quiz! ⬇️
SELECT AWARDS
Recipient of Master Fine Art Photographer Degree from Master Photographers International
2024 & 2025 Voted BEST IN THE NORTHWEST in The Seattle Times
2024 North America Business Awards: Best Photographic Art Gallery - West Coast
2023 & 2024 Global Excellence Award by LuxLife Magazine
2022-2025 U.S. West Coast Nature Photographer of the Year
Gold & Silver Award, 2022 London Photography Awards
Gold & Silver Award, 2021 New York Photography Awards
Gold, Silver & Bronze Award, Master Photographers' International Image Challenge
Official Selection, 2021 Tokyo International Photography Awards
Silver Award, 2020 San Francisco Int’l Photo Awards
Bronze Award, 2021 Tokyo International Photography Awards
Bronze Award, 2021 Epson Int'l Pano Awards
Nominee, 2020 & 2021 Fine Art Photography Awards
Honorable Mention, 2020 & 2021 Int’l Photography Awards
Honorable Mention, 2020 Moscow Int’l Foto Awards
Honorable Mention, 2020 & 2021 Vienna Int’l Foto Award
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Times Square, NYC — with Plogix Gallery
Las Lagunas Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Marin Society of Artists, San Rafael, CA
D’art Gallery, Denver, CO
R Gallery, Boulder, CO
Lone Tree Arts Center, CO
Plymouth Center for the Arts, Plymouth, MA
Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR
Dallas Metro Arts Contemporary, Plano, TX
Photo Place Gallery, Middlebury, VT
Lik Gallery, ViePhoto, Vienna, Austria
Blank Wall Gallery, Athens, Greece
PH21 Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
Glasgow Gallery of Photography, Glasgow, Scotland
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