Photos by @sofia_jaramillo5 | Last summer I spent 10 days in Grand Teton and Yellowstone National Parks with ecologist Monica Turner, her team, and National Geographic writer Craig Welch (@craigwelch), working on a story about how lodgepole pine forests respond to fire. We walked through some woods that were so charred it looked as if they would never recover and others where hundreds of young trees flourished below canopies of burned pines.
Photos: (1) Ecologist Monica Turner counts lodgepole pine seedlings sprouting among pines that burned in 2016 in Grand Teton National Park. Fire opens seed cones, allowing lodgepoles to regenerate—but if another fire comes before trees mature, the trees may not grow back; (2) when lodgepole pines are burned their serotinous cones open up and drop to the ground to seed the forest. But it takes lodgepole pines decades to develop these cones. This in-camera double exposure shows an area where part of the forest, in the foreground, burned before it had enough time to grow serotinous cones. Tall Lodgepole pines that had enough time to grow them still stand after being burned. The Glade fire first burned this area in 2000 and then the Berry fire burned it again, in 2016; (3) a crescent moon rises above burned lodgepole pines in Grand Teton National Park.
To see more photos of the mountain west, follow @sofia_jaramillo5 and check out the May edition of National Geographic magazine. #forestfire#forest#fire#forestphotography
A Few Magical Days in NYC:
1)Last night @Penumbrafoundation. Thank you Leandro Villaro and @geoffreyberliner for inviting me share my thoughts on photography and big thanks to everyone who came out, there were so many photographers in the crowd, quite spectacular really. I felt the love 💗
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2)Printing BIG with Ken Allen @Brooklynprintworks. Overwhelmingly exciting seeing this photograph at this size. This print is for a new commission. I’ll share photos of it once its installed and framed. 45x60.”
3-7)Last Friday morning, we joined @aperturefnd for a gallery walk with @thesarahmeister and @brendanembser (with thanks to a push by @elisabethsmolarz 😊). We stopped at @BruceSilverstein, @YanceyRichardsonGallery, and @PaceGallery and heard inspiring stories by the gallerists themselves. The special surprise was an impromptu visit by Emmet Gowin. He shared stories behind the making of the photographs on view and spoke about the lives photographs and what he learns from his pictures, sometimes many years after they were first printed. It was magical and heartwarming and even a bit emotional. Images in order:portrait of Emmet, Emmet Gowin at Pace, Richard Misrach at Pace, Carolyn Drake at Yancey Richardson, and Asher Cowens at Bruce Silverstein.
8)On Thursday, I attended an evening of talks by @justine4good and @laura_larson_studio , hosted by @10x10photobooks. They each spoke for 15 mins about their forthcoming books. Both talks were inspiring, albeit quite different in their approach. I left feeling empowered and energized and excited about the power of photography.
9-10) I won the lottery to Harry Potter Cursed Child on Bway. (With thanks to @rachelpapo for the info!). Layla and I just left the theatre. It was magical!
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