J. Ripley Photo

09/21/2023

These Shiras Moose were so fun to chase around, so photogenic and more of a pack animal than the solitary eastern Moose. Wyoming is a magical place, maybe my favorite spot west of the mississippi. It might be the best spot in the contiguous U.S. for type 2 fun. Take me back for the rut!

09/02/2023

This app has been consistently losing it's appeal for sharing work and made me think a lot more about getting back to a print focus and out int my work on walls. It feels good to be prepping a print order with some truly memorable data. I'm gonna do a couple of these big, most likely including this one. i.s.o walls to put 'em on!

08/28/2023

Probably the 5th time I've taken this photo in 20 years. Always enjoy it, always envy the house. Always leave saying that's one of the most beautiful fields in Maine. Certainly one of the gently powerful places in the foothills of the white mountains.

08/26/2023

Wyoming Roamin' on the mind today! A few weeks of type 2 fun and soul searching between sealevel and the medicine wheel at close to 10k ft. There's very few places I feel a spiritual connection to like I did here. It's a place I could easily spend a lifetime exploring it and by association myself in. It's gentle and rugged all in one package, with very minimal development till you hit Sheridan. I can't wait to get back here during different seasons to chase animals and light across these 7000 ft canyons and grasslands.

08/13/2023

Magic Moments chasing wild mustangs through a sea of sandcastles on the mind!

Finally have this project on some legs, I'm going to turn it into an ongoing magazine project, Bi-annual adventure logs that'll give me a space to share a bit more intimacy about my trips than I'd like to put out on here. I'm stoked on the project so far and it's helped me unpack a lot of emotions I've had over the past year, and really life in it's entirety. This trip was by & far one of the most healing things I've felt for an appreciation of self. This walk specifically in the Pryors felt like absolute spiritual magic. This project is some of my best work and I'm very excited to do something different with it!

08/08/2023

Spooked these 2 healthy cows out in Shirley bog today. Paddled the entirety of it, didn't see s**t and was ripping back to the car, looked up and she was truckin' across the bog. Would have liked to get closer but I'll take a mountainscape and some moose any day of the week!

08/02/2023

08/02/2023

What a wild place to roam and call home.

07/24/2023

When I set out on my trip I had a draw to South Dakota, something in me knew this was one of the more underrated states in this country. The variability of terrain, people and agriculture was so on point for what I love about this world. It's a simple but thriving state of endless exploration, absolutely exploding with a diversity of wildlife I hadn't seen before. The interspersion of these rocky ranges and prairie land really is a beautiful look at the America that once was. Even with all the tourists around Custer & Rushmore this place very much still feels like old americana, I couldn't help but feel attached to this countries story of exploration while in the shadows of these beautiful places the creator gave us to explore and find ourselves in.

07/24/2023

This big boy wouldn't give me a look back, just sauntered into the woods with a casualness only experience could make him comfortable in. Would love to see how this fall!

07/23/2023

I overheard someone talking about this place and all the color variation in the soil here, added it to my list and got this slow roller of a storm passing through when I got here. Definitely the highlight of my time in Yellowstone, every now and then the clouds and lighting feel like they're right in line with the photos I want to take, this was one of those rad moments!

07/18/2023

These wild critters are one of the coolest. Massive lungs and heart ready to run for miles. Ava was probably a pronghorn reincarnated into a badass dog. This was the biggest buck I saw out there, can't get enough of those racks!