Kelsie DiPerna Photography

08/09/2025

From the archives. Self portrait from the Salton Sea, 2023.

07/20/2023

Portals from the beyond 💥

01/05/2023

PNW 🏕️💚

10/25/2022

🧚🏼‍♀️ Innnnnnn with the crisp air as the mist tickles your face and water bubbles around the rocks at your feet. Outtttttttt with whatever you haven’t invited to join you in this place (space).

08/09/2022

Starry Sedona nights ✨

02/25/2021

Sun rising to warm the chill February air over the Big Sur coastline☀️

02/24/2021

Warm memories from the mountains of Oaxaca!

10/30/2020

Late last March we got the call that the bioluminescent algae had resurfaced on the shores of San Diego. That first night was a spring tide, when high tide is at its peak in the lunar cycle, and we made our way to the sand to splash in the sparkling waves and watch our footprints glow beneath a starlit sky. ✨
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All at once, streaks of silver danced below us and we looked closer to discover that grunions (silverfish) had made their way up on the beach to spawn! Thousands of females had made their way up the beach to dig themselves into the sand and lay their eggs, followed shortly thereafter by the males to curve around the bodies of the females and fertilize the eggs. This dance of life only lasts a couple of hours before the grunions retreat to the sea. How lucky were we?!
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I can’t quite explain how special this moment felt to me then. Amidst a global pandemic, in those tenuous moments of despair, it gave me a glimmer of understanding in that the cycle of life and death is something that encompasses us all. And it’s raw and messy and ultimately miraculous. I still travel back to this moment where the awe and childlike joy of the pure utter fact of life was just at arms reach.

10/27/2020

‘Cascada grande’ is a natural wonder found deep in the dry desert-like landscape of Oaxaca. This 90m tall formation has been built over time from the hot springs that tumble over the cliffside above, depositing calcium carbonate in their path. Do visit early in the day to bathe in the healing waters of the rock pools and take in the expansive views

07/21/2020

Apt to make some cheeky metaphor for life being a labyrinth, but I’ll just leave this here instead and save you the nonsense 😎🌀

02/15/2020

11/06/2019

Peering into the heavens amidst some of Earth’s most majestic trees lit by the warm fires glow.