1/1 Edition.

A self portrait from Deadvlei, Namibia.

A place I’ve dreamed of visiting for a decade… and yet being there in person, walking barefoot across the dead marsh under these 600-900 year old skeleton trees, was such a surreal experience unlike anything I imagined it would be.

I originally had an entirely different series of images in my mind for this place... but the moment I crested the last sand dune at sunrise and saw these trees spread out on the dead pan floor below, all my earlier visions vanished. All I could see were these new visions - a balance of death and life... of light and dark... of a dream walking through decay.

Thankfully, I had a white dress crammed in the bottom of my backpack (a back-up plan dress if my other ideas fell through), and that ended up being the perfect prop to bring my new vision to life: Life enduring among death. An appreciation and admiration for the impermanence of life. The beauty still found in darkness. The spirit that remains.