Amid the quiet expanse of Lower Crab Creek Coulee, the Saddle Mountains emerge like a sculpted memory—timeless, still, and reverent. This monochrome study captures the poetic tension between permanence and passing skies, inviting peaceful reflection and connection to place.

Light, Texture, Silence: Photographing Lower Crab Creek Coulee

There’s a kind of beauty in quiet places—a beauty that doesn’t ask for attention, but rewards it. I spent a single autumn morning photographing Washington’s Lower Crab Creek Coulee in black and white. The land, shaped by ancient floods, seemed to whisper in shadows and light. This project is my way of listening—and sharing what I heard.