Elements Magazine… How It Was Shot

Elements Magazine is a relative newcomer in the photo magazine world, but it’s quickly become one of the top magazines for landscape photographers and always features some of the best landscape images and photographers in the world. I was first asked to write for one of their very first issues in 2021, with an article on photographing in Acadia National Park.

A couple months ago, editor Olaf Sztaba asked me to contribute an image to their September special issue, “How it was Shot.” Co-Editor Steven Friedman picked one of his favorite of my images, a lone tree photographed at Jordan Pond in 2013, that is also one of the opening images in my coffee table book, Under October Skies.

It’s always a bit hard to remember your exact thoughts when making an image from over ten years ago, but I do remember this one, and I remember loving the atmospheric fog that provided such a soft backdrop to this solitary tree.

To read more about how I created this image, check out Elements at https://www.elementsphotomag.com.