Santiam Pass 2014_0134_35B&W
Devastating forest fires that swept through this part of the Oregon Cascade Range more than a decade ago left behind a landscape of eerie beauty when these snags of fir, pines cedars and hemlock are isolated in an abstract close-up against snow-covered mountain terrain. Santiam Pass, Oregon. In black & white, particularly, the landscape took on the feel of a Japanese pen-and-ink drawing.