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04/22/2026

Happy Earth Day. Now more than ever, the Earth is in crisis.

The U.S. Forest Service is being stripped down while public lands are treated like assets to liquidate. Under Donald Trump, leadership across the Environmental Protection Agency and Bureau of Land Management has increasingly aligned with oil and logging interests with the appointments of oil and logging lobbyists to run the agencies, such a Kathleen Sgamma, the president of Western Energy Alliance, Alex Dominguez, a former oil lobbyist appointed to work on automobile emissions regulations, Aaron Szabo, a former lobbyist for the oil and chemical industries appointed to handle air pollution regulation, and Steven Cook, a former attorney for chemical and oil refining companies rejoining the EPA.

There have been renewed pushes to open up public lands for sale and development. The Boundary Waters in the Superior National Forest have just been sold to a Chilean mining company to extract copper to sell it to China. Grand Staircase Escalante is now under threat. National Forests and Monuments are first on the chopping block

Meanwhile, the planet continues to warm. Year after year breaks records. Fires burn longer. Snowpacks shrink. Rivers run lower. Massive energy demands from things like data centers to the carbon footprint of forever wars in the middle east are accelerating the strain. The machinery of the modern world is killing the planet we love.

We must protect what’s still ours.
Speak up before it’s sold off.
Pay attention, and follow the money. This isn’t hypothetical anymore. We are in a huge crisis

Now more than ever.

04/08/2026

Spring is here in the Sierra! Flowers are blooming, the falls are flowing, and the wildlife is out and about. Go see it for yourself and LEAVE NO TRACE
This photo is a vertical panorama. Even with my 14mm ultra wide lens I still felt like I was leaving so much of the scene out, so I had to stack 4 photos together to capture it all in one.

03/27/2026

March means its the beginning of the milky way season in North America. From here until October on any night with low moon luminosity, you can drive far from the lights if the city and see the beauty of the galactic core of our galaxy on display. In the early months it rests more along the horizon of the sky in these early months, and as the season progresses tilts to be more vertical with each night passing. You can enjoy this photo for yourself, but I'd highly recommend to just go see it yourself! You can snap a picture too, all you need is a tripod and a camera that can take a long exposure. This image is a 15 minute long tracked exposure to to capture even more detail out of the stars and galactic core, but you can keep it simple with a 15-20 second exposure. The best advice I can give anyone this year is to out and enjoy nature, and to leave no trace.

03/13/2026

Traces of winter remain for those willing to climb high enough to find them.
While the world below turns quietly toward spring, the mountains remind us that letting go takes time.
Change moves slowly in these old mountains

03/01/2026

Life has been sweet lately. I moved to Reno, Nevada and I’ve fallen in love with the surrounding area. This photo was taken on the drive from Texas. I was lucky enough to witness the beautiful winter landscapes of the Mammoth Lakes area in the Eastern Sierra Nevada. What a gift it is in life to be able to be witness to such pristine beauty untouched by human hands.

09/05/2025

In the culminating days of summer, between long hours at work and worn hands, I stole away a weekend to breathe, away from the dust of west Texas. Up in the Rockies of Colorado, the grind loosened its grip for just a moment, and a coyote stood against the mountains, positioned as a keeper of something older than time. I thought about how fleeting these pauses in the day to day routine are, how quickly the work calls me back, yet how deeply they remind us that the world still hums with wildness, with silence, with life beyond the bo***ge of labor

07/18/2025

My debut solo record, Somewhere Between the Place I knew Before is now out now on every streaming platform.

For the lovers, the sinners, the dreamers…
The broken hearted, the fallen on hard timers, the ones who still believe in something even if they don’t know what it is anymore.

Every song’s a piece of the road I took to get here. An expression of sincerity and vulnerability in an increasingly inauthentic world.

This one’s for the lost, the found, and everybody stuck somewhere between.
Yours Truly
– Zane

05/24/2025

Today I turn 27, so I leave you with this poem and this photo from years past

Another Spring

My age is now twenty seven.
A number not heavy, yet it bears weight
years like smooth stones in my pocket,
each with its own hush and echo.

I have not always known joy
as the bright robin knows the worm,
nor pain as the river knows its bed
but I have known enough.

There were winters when the light
curled away like a frightened animal.
Even then, I waited. Even then,
I believed in the return.

Now, the birch is budding again,
and the wild violets uncurl at my feet.
The wind carries the scent of old things
being made new.

I walk slowly,
not from weariness,
but reverence.
The past follows like a soft shadow,
but my eyes, my eyes look forward.

I do not know what joy
might come tomorrow,
but I know how the sun feels
on my face this morning.

And isn’t that enough?

To be here.
To be breathing.
To live to see another spring.

05/06/2025

Woke up before the sun, to get here. Loaded the 35mm, and stood at the edge of Texas watching the light stretch across the Rio Grande into Mexico. Just water between us, no wall, no chaos, just quiet, open land. Hard to square the peace of this place with the noise we make about it. Borders drawn by policy, not by nature, on native land
Shot on 35mm Kodak gold 200
Nikon F4

03/03/2025

Really excited to announce my newest 2 song EP is up on all streaming platforms! Listen to Left Behind and Something New wherever you get your music! Links in the bio, or just search my name.
This is only the beginning of what’s in the works so stick around if you enjoy it, and thank you to anyone who listens and gives it a chance.
Huge thanks to for playing drums on this and to for making the cover art.
Peace and love

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