I have taken photographs for much of my life, since I was a child. I was always more interested in photographing landscapes than portraits, and I always found places somehow magical.

I became interested in how light changes throughout the day and how fundamentally that can change our perception of a place; how a still composition can be full of movement, and how our position within a landscape changes what we see. A tree viewed with the light behind us may make us think about the beauty of its overall shape and form; move beneath its canopy and our attention may shift to the small detail of light filtering through its leaves, a warm feeling combined with a sense of enclosure.

When I trained as a landscape architect, I was inspired by a teacher talking about some of these same relationships in landscape: light and dark, hard and soft, open and closed. It made me think about what is made and what is natural, and even what appears natural but has been decided by a human. I am very interested in how there are layers to how we experience a landscape. The same tree changes with our position, the light over the course of the day, the seasons and what surrounds it. When I design I try to be aware of that layering which allows one decision to offer several experiences, I hope that creates rich and interesting places.