By capturing vast forest vistas under uniform lighting conditions, this typology approach allows for non-hierarchical comparisons. These images, boasting incredibly high resolutions, encapsulate 180-degree views of complete forest scenes spanning from left to right and bottom to top. These photographs can be printed in sizes up to 8 feet by 14 feet while retaining their full resolution, taking full advantage of current photographic technology.

Inspired in part by 19th-century landscape artists like Theodore Rousseau, these photographs juxtapose the grandeur of nature with smaller, fleeting moments, infusing the work with immediacy and subtle narrative drama.

The project unfolds cyclically: hiking, capturing photographs, printing mural-sized images, and then returning to the same scenes after a season or a year, rephotographing and re-experiencing them. This repeat photography method allows for witnessing the evolving transformation of these forest landscapes over time, and documenting their changes.

The outcomes range from pre- and post-fire scenarios to beetle infestations and sudden oak death, but also capture the hopeful resilience and rebirth of many forests. Together, these images uncover the profound narratives and complexities embedded within forests.

This enduring fascination has driven the photographing of nearly 800 large-scale forest scenes over the past six years and necessitated over 100 journeys to the most remote corners of California.

Since the beginning of the California Forest project, both subtle and alarming changes have been observed in the forests impacted by wildfires and drought. The ambition is to capture in photographic montages these rapid transformations and ecological disasters.

California's treasured heritage forests are in danger. The aim is to capture many of them through the lens, preserving their essence for future generations amidst uncertain times.