Canopy at Ilopango Size:24x36 closer to how a place

closer to how a place can feel than how it actually presents itself

stretching across the sky in dense bands of star clouds and dark dust lanes

The result is a scene that balances the permanence of volcanic stone with the motion and depth of the night sky

Life here grows lush

Canopy at Ilopango Size:24x36 closer to how a placeLake Ilopango, El Salvador This photograph was made beside Lake Ilopango, standing beneath a tree that stopped me in my tracks. Its branches twisted and bent in every direction, thick and muscular, reaching across the sky like something alive. I stepped underneath it and looked straight up, letting the canopy frame the light above. This was my first major international photography trip. I lived in El Salvador for more than two months, and it was one