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Milestones: Winter in Rocky Mountain National Park

March 18, 2025 Sarah Marino

Note: This is the introductory essay for my portfolio of photos from a recent trip to Rocky Mountain National Park. You can view the full portfolio as a free PDF ebook or as a web gallery.

I wrote the first draft of this essay on a hot, cloudless, and windy day in the Mojave Desert. With the intense winds kicking a thick brown cloud into the air, we baked inside our trailer since we did not want to open the windows for better ventilation and, maybe, a cooling breeze. Just a few days before, I had been in wintery Estes Park, Colorado, to attend a photography conference and then explore Rocky Mountain National Park (RMNP) with six photography friends. On our best day of photography in RMNP, the temperature hovered around 4°F, with winds as intense as I was now experiencing in the desert. Instead of stirring up copious amounts of dust and keeping me inside, the winds in RMNP instead whipped powdery snow into the air, creating a hazy veil of sparkles and the appearance of drifting fog during the best moments.

Putting aside the intermittent sound of the wind whisking through the trees, the feeling of being enveloped in such a quiet landscape is the thread I followed as I created the photos in this portfolio. With the bright whites and blues of the snow blanketing the mountains, meadows, and trees, and soft clouds easing the light toward gentleness, the landscape often looked like a sea of pleasant pastels spread out in front of me, even if the weather—the wind, the blowing snow, and the very cold temperatures—made the experience itself intense and quite unpleasant at times.

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In Winter Photography, E-Books, Nature Photography, Women in Photography Tags Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, Winter, Estes Park, Outdoor Photo Alliance
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200+ Women Landscape & Nature Photographers Who Inspire

August 25, 2015 Sarah Marino

Why a compilation like this?

I will start out by saying that I am generally not a fan of women-only lists because I want my photography to stand on its own. I don’t want to be known as a woman landscape photographer, just a landscape photographer who happens to be a woman. So, why am I writing this post? For the two reasons described below. 

Since I started in landscape photography, this field has noticeably diversified in terms of both race and gender. Significantly more women are pursuing landscape photography (or at least are more visible) and many have developed compelling, top-tier portfolios of work. More women are teaching workshops, running photo tours, writing, showing in galleries, selling prints, and providing leadership within landscape photography. Yet, we continue to be woefully underrepresented at the top levels of this field as evidenced by the overwhelming absence of women in publications, conference/summit/symposia rosters, podcast interviews, portfolio features, brand ambassador line-ups, and other symbols of achievement and relevance in landscape photography. And, when a woman is included, it sometimes feels like little more than a token gesture. 

This dynamic seems to be increasingly frustrating to women photographers and I see more people speaking out about this lack of representation more regularly. Some women are responding with women-only workshops, publications, and collaborative groups to offer alternatives to the "business as usual" spaces in this field where few women are represented. And, photographers concerned about this under-representation are being more vocal in calling it out. 

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