Nature is a storyteller, carving its narratives onto the landscape. Can you tell where I recorded these beautiful patterns? #photography #macro #fineart #california

Diving a little deeper into my latest project. #photography #landscapephotography #art #traveling

I like chasing challenging weather because it gives you magical moments like this. A quick break in the rain and Cannon Beach delivered. #photography #landscapephotogaphy #cannonbeach #oregon #fineart

From the rustic beaches of Whidbey to the dreamy forests of Orcas. I’m on island time. #photography #landscapephotogrpajy #PNW #orcasisland #islandtime

Beautiful Whidbey Island, WA. #photography #landscapephotography #PNW

Sneak peek of my latest project, "Terra Incognita". It is a meditation on departure, estrangement, and the unstable geography of home. #photography #landscapephotography #pnw #whidbey #fineart

Ferry sunset #photography #landscapephotography #nature #PNW #pugetsound

Haystack Rock from a quieter angle. #photography #landscapephotography #fineart #nature #cannonbeach #oregon

Most people go to Pfeiffer Beach for the pink sand. I spent most of my time with this wind-shaped cypress instead. #photography #landscapephotography #nature #fineart #bigsur #california

Wood waves. Beautiful how the same patterns repeat everywhere, isn’t it? #photography #macrophotography #california #fineart

I quietly sat and waited for the moment a wave met the rock at the center of the frame—now hidden. The California coast has a way of rewarding patience. #photography #fineart #landscapephotography #BigSur #California

Waterfall on the Olympic Peninsula. I experimented with exposure times and landed on this one—soft flow, but with individual streams still visible. How do you like to photograph moving water? #photography #landscapephotography #nature #PNW #fineart

Anyone else settling into a photographic theme this year? I didn’t plan one, but fog keeps showing up—here's to 2026! #photography #landscapephotography #fineart #PNW #fog

Ocean of logs. #photography #landscapephotography #nature #fineart #PNW

Pacific Northwest beach strolling. #photography #landscapephotography #art #PNW

Everyone visits the Hoh Rainforest in summer. But its true character lives in the wet months. Temperate rainforests are built on moisture and shade—conditions that turn fallen trees into nurseries and forests into layered systems of life. #photography #art #landscapephotography #PNW #hohrainforest

Yes, living in the PNW can be dreary. It's wet, gray, and relentless. But it’s also atmospheric, contemplative, and breathtaking in ways that sunnier places never are. #photography #nature #landscapephotography #PNW #fineart

My Etsy print shop is officially live ✨ 25% off today, 20% the rest of the week. Landscapes from California → the PNW. Thanks for supporting this new little corner of my work. www.etsy.com/shop/PhotoSt... #photography #landscapephotography #art #fineart

A bright wave crashes down on the rocks shattering into a thousand drops, free at last in clouds of steam, drifting towards a new beginning. #BlueSkyArtShow #bright #photography #landscapephotography #art #photographersOfBluesky

Winter is coming. #photography #landscapephotography #art #lassenvolcanicpark #volcano #snow

As the season winds down, the aspens give us one last burst of autumn beauty. #photography #art #aspen #utah #landscapephotography

When the sunset slips into a full-on fantasy world. #photography #art #fineart #landscape

Lichens always stop me in my tracks. They’re not plants but rather a symbiosis between a fungus and an alga living as one. And this California coastal cypress is the perfect home base for them to anchor to. #photography #art #california #landscape

For men may come and men may go, But I go on forever. - Excerpt from "The Brook" (1886), Alfred Lord Tennyson #photography #poetry #landscapephotography #art #river

There's no sunset like a California sunset. #photography #art #landscapephotography #california

More fallscapes 🍂 🍁 #photography #art #landscape #utah

Another magazine feature for my project "Through the Fog". www.curatorymagazine.com/post/kim-van... #photography #art #curatorymagazine

Time for some fallscapes. #photography #art #landscapephotography #utah

Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf’s a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf, So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay. —Robert Frost, 1923 #photography #art #california #tahoe #seasons

📸✨ Read my interview with #VisualArtJournal about my photography project Through the Fog—and the journey that shaped me as an artist. #photography #art #fineartphotography

Late afternoon at Donner Lake, CA. #photography #dailyart #tahoe #california #landscape #landscapephotography

Painterly photography #photography #dailyart #art #macro

Oahu, Hawaii. #photography #art #mountain #rainforest #hawaii

My research background deeply shapes my work. For "Imperial Harvest," I explored food history to uncover what it reveals about the European exploitation of the Americas. Shortlisted for "Food Politics," World Food Photography Awards 2023. More: studioceleste.art/imperial-har... #photography #art

I love the things, with their infinite details, each one with its own invisible soul, tingling with the light of simple perfection. Pablo Neruda – Ode to Common Things, 1954 #photography #poetry #art

the sun is always somewhere #landscape #cymru #clouds #mountains #photography #photographersofbluesky

Foggy morning at Rattlesnake Lake, WA. #photography #art #dailyart #pacificnorthwest #WA

A wave crashes down on the rocks below shattering into a thousand drops, free at last in clouds of steam, drifting towards a new beginning. #photography #poetry #art #hawaii

"Through the Fog," a project exploring the tension between conservation and industry at Point Reyes National Seashore, CA. studioceleste.art/through-the-... #photography #art #california #pointreyes #tuleelk

Layers of blue. #dailyart #photography #ocean #california

It's that time of the year. #photography #art #dailyphoto #summer #beach #california

Early America in photos, “singing the songs of the people everywhere, whether it’s the butcher, the baker or the candlestick maker.” #photography #art #exhibition #met #waltwhitman

I am the daughter of Earth and Water, And the nursling of the Sky; I pass through the pores of the ocean and shores; I change, but I cannot die. Excerpt from Percy Bysshe Shelley – The Cloud, 1820 #photography #dailyphoto #art #WA #skagitvalley

Look down sometimes. #photography #dailyphoto #art #beach

Chilling and enjoying the view #photography #sunset #landscape #fjord #water #stavanger

A quiet, eerie morning down by the waterfront. #photography #dailyphoto #fog #art #wallart

May your trails be crooked, winding, lonesome, dangerous, leading to the most amazing view. May your mountains rise into and above the clouds. May your rivers flow without end. Edward Abbey — Desert Solitaire, 1968 #photography #dailyphoto #art #landscape #utah

After the Rush. In Lavrio, Greece, the old miners’ quarters tell a quiet story. Long after the industry faded, its imprint remains—homes, lives, and a town still carrying the weight of its past. More on: studioceleste.art/after-the-ru... #photography #art #dailyphoto

Steps echo through the icy mist, the world erased, then reborn— a quiet walk through shifting time. #photography #dailyphoto #art #pacificnorthwest #fog #poetry

I love the things, with their infinite details, each one with its own invisible soul, tingling with the light of simple perfection. Pablo Neruda – Ode to Common Things, 1954 #photography #poetry #dailyphoto #art