Brooke Foy Photography

Brooke Foy Photography As a landscape photographer, I am focused on sharing what life can look like when we work to heal the Earth.

By exposing more people to this imagery, my hope is that it will catalyze more actions and support to heal our collective home.

Overtourism is reshaping some of the most fragile places in the world — from national parks to coastal cities to the eco...
05/29/2026

Overtourism is reshaping some of the most fragile places in the world — from national parks to coastal cities to the ecosystems that can’t keep up with the pressure. What looks like individual behavior is often the result of something larger: underfunded parks, unclear guidance, social media trends, and industries funneling travelers into the same few locations without investing in the infrastructure those places need.
This week’s Seeking Awe essay looks at overtourism through a cross‑sector lens — travelers, influencers, governments, corporations, and local organizations — and the coordinated effort required to protect the places we love before they’re loved to death.

https://open.substack.com/pub/courtneyfoyphotography/p/overtourism-is-destroying-the-places?r=6qrior&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

Rocky Mountain National Park rises through three main ecosystems — montane, subalpine, and alpine tundra — each its own ...
05/15/2026

Rocky Mountain National Park rises through three main ecosystems — montane, subalpine, and alpine tundra — each its own distinct world. A short climb can take me from the quiet of the forest to the openness above treeline, the landscape and its wildlife changing in subtle layers along the way.
This Seeking Awe article is a photo essay through those worlds, following my path from intimate forests to wide mountaintops and the moments that made me feel vividly alive.

https://open.substack.com/pub/courtneyfoyphotography/p/intimate-forests-and-vast-mountaintops?r=6qrior&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

It can be so easy to ignore our own need for creativity and play, as we try to meet the demands of this chaotic manmade ...
05/12/2026

It can be so easy to ignore our own need for creativity and play, as we try to meet the demands of this chaotic manmade world we're living in today. I wrote about that in a very personal essay last week in Seeking Awe and want to share a journal prompt that helps explore the creativity in your own life.

Last week I wrote a very personal piece in Seeking Awe about burnout, trauma, and repressed creativity. Writing about my...
05/08/2026

Last week I wrote a very personal piece in Seeking Awe about burnout, trauma, and repressed creativity. Writing about my experiences has been hugely cathartic and the pathway to my own discoveries about who I truly am as a person - and what I want my life to be.

Starting this week, I am going to post a weekly journal prompt we can all use to reflect.

This week's Seeking Awe Journal Prompt:
What part of your life has felt misaligned or too small for who you're becoming?

https://open.substack.com/pub/courtneyfoyphotography/p/burnout-trauma-and-repressed-creativity?r=6qrior&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

For so long, I thought burnout meant I was failing.This essay tells the truth of what was actually happening within me -...
05/01/2026

For so long, I thought burnout meant I was failing.
This essay tells the truth of what was actually happening within me - how trauma and suppressed creativity hollowed me out, and how paying attention to my body, practicing presence, and time within the natural world helped me begin to take my life back.
It's a heavy essay, and I wrote it for anyone who is struggling in a way that rest doesn't fix.

https://open.substack.com/pub/courtneyfoyphotography/p/burnout-trauma-and-repressed-creativity?r=6qrior&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

The light was almost gone by the time I reached the west side of Rocky — that blue‑gray hour when the trees turn to silh...
04/24/2026

The light was almost gone by the time I reached the west side of Rocky — that blue‑gray hour when the trees turn to silhouettes and the air feels heavier. A young moose moved in and out of the shadows, and I balanced on a fallen lodgepole pine just to watch.
The photos didn’t work out.
But the moment did.
Sometimes the mountain offers you something you’re not meant to capture — only to witness.

https://open.substack.com/pub/courtneyfoyphotography/p/rocky-mountain-national-park-a-history?r=6qrior&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

I’ve been thinking about the word home—not as a physical structure, but as a relationship. This essay follows that think...
04/17/2026

I’ve been thinking about the word home—not as a physical structure, but as a relationship. This essay follows that thinking into Rocky Mountain National Park this season, into quiet, into history, and into remembering where we belong. It reflects on place as something that shapes us, asks something of us, and invites a different pace of attention. I wrote this piece for anyone looking to build a closer relationship with nature—and with themselves.

https://open.substack.com/pub/courtneyfoyphotography/p/rocky-mountain-national-park-a-history?r=6qrior&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

For most of my life, my body lived in a quiet kind of tension —shoulders lifted, always tense, always bracing.And then, ...
04/02/2026

For most of my life, my body lived in a quiet kind of tension —
shoulders lifted, always tense, always bracing.
And then, not long ago, I felt something new:
the physical warmth of Joy,
the softness of Peace,
the kind of calm that settles into your bones.
I wrote about that experience,
about learning to notice tension,
about gently shifting my body back to center,
and about a grounding practice that helps me return to myself
before I go out to seek Awe.
Awe and Beauty are the ingredients we use to find Gratitude.
For when we find the world beautiful, we find Love.
👉 Read and let your shoulders down:
https://open.substack.com/pub/courtneyfoyphotography/p/gratitude-is-the-holy-grail?r=6qrior&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true

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