About Cory

Working as a guide for an adventure youth camp in the High Sierra gave me a profound appreciation for wilderness, and the life changing results it can create simply by spending extended time in a world mostly unchanged by the human hand. Like so many others, I found myself moved and challenged in ways that were hard to describe, and from these moments, a life-long passion for the wild, and the preservation of it, was born. This love of wilderness has remained a central part of who I am as a person for almost three decades. In that time, I have found that photography has provided a means to share some of what I experience with others.

Perhaps unconventionally, I choose to share an image only if it communicates the deepest emotions of the moment. Often I return many times to a single location in order to capture “the” image, at the sacrifice of visiting many places briefly. And so, visitors won’t find my gallery packed full of thousands of images from hundreds of locations. Instead, they will find fewer images, each unique in it’s own beauty, capturing the essence of the place it was taken at the very finest moment.

Although many of my images are a combination of multiple captures, each image was created using only those captures made within moments of one another, all at the exact same location. For example, I frequently bracket exposures in order to retain detail, but I will not add elements (clouds in a sky, for example), or remove elements using digital manipulation. As such, I process each image with the sole purpose of retaining everything that I saw through the viewfinder at the time of capture.

Thank you for taking the time to view my gallery. I hope that what you see will move you as deeply as it has me, and that you are truly inspired by the undeniable beauty of wilderness.