When most hikers are headed off the path, Jonathan Knight is simply getting began. The Denver-based artist prefers to {photograph} about 45 minutes after sundown, throughout “the last few minutes the sky has any blue hue in it and the last few minutes you can see without an external light source,” he shares. As soon as deep within the forest, Knight captures majestic waterfalls that cascade from rocky cliffs, their mist casting an ethereal haze throughout the scene.
“I had many nights of walking back two, three, four miles to the car alone with just a camera on my back and headlamp on my head,” he shares. “There was nothing more spooky than seeing the telltale glow of eyes within the beam of the headlamp. Lucky for me it was only ever our friends like elk or deer.”
All through 2022, Knight scouted waterfalls throughout California, Oregon, Washington, and Colorado. He documented every in his signature minimal model, utilizing low distinction to intensify the pure fantastic thing about his subject material. “This project is really about the figure of the waterfall against negative space. The shape of the water becomes the subject,” he provides.
Knight gives prints of the Waterfalls collection on his web site, the place you may view all the assortment. Comply with his work on Instagram.
