Wild Places, Slowly Seen

Frames from long walks, far from the usual viewpoints

A Tokyo avenue at night with neon signs and traffic

Dispatches from the trail

A hand-picked set of recent treks, deserts and city nights

Tokyo After Midnight

Sandstone cliffs rising above a desert track in Wadi Rum
Wind-rippled desert dunes with a lone trail of footprints at sunrise

Wadi Rum at First Light

Jagged alpine peaks rising above a sea of clouds at dusk

High Pastures of the Andes

I’m the eye behind Alpenglow Trail Photography, a visual storyteller driven by curiosity for wild places and the people in them. I photograph on foot and in available light, and I would rather wait an hour for the right moment than stage one.

The photographer raising a camera to shoot on a busy city street

How I work

My approach is to slow down. I walk, I wait, and I let the scene settle before I raise the camera. A frame is never just the view for me: it is the weather, the effort of getting there and the people met along the way.

A lantern-lit back alley in Tokyo at night View from a wooden rowboat drifting on a still mountain lake