Evan Keeler-Wolf

Evan Keeler-Wolf Evan Keeler-Wolf Fine Art Photography

California's Seedy Overbelly-There's a lot to love above CA's natural aesthetic endowment.  However, the San Joaquin Val...
06/18/2022

California's Seedy Overbelly-
There's a lot to love above CA's natural aesthetic endowment.  However, the San Joaquin Valley from Redding down to Bakersfield along the I-5 corridor has always been an area to get thru en-route to somewhere else as opposed to a destination. Lots of ag, frequently smells like butts, hella flat...It is this exact flatness that is responsible for these Vernal pool landscapes.
     Back in February I was hired to work on a project aiming to capture the beauty of these abstract melty worlds for a book, film and campaign to preserve/convert many of these places into protected land trust conservancies. Over the course of several weeks I learned about the processes responsible for these dimpled galaxies: ground squirrels digging and pushing dirt away from their burrows, flatness, low point of gravity, water, millenia, rinse, repeat and SHABLAMO...abstract ecstacy hidden in plain sight. These are but a small sample of my images from this project.

Paint By The Numbers-Much like summer wildflowers in the mountains, it seems that me posting is a seasonal phenomenon. I...
09/24/2020

Paint By The Numbers-
Much like summer wildflowers in the mountains, it seems that me posting is a seasonal phenomenon. I have great admiration for those of you who have found consistency in any of your pursuits: posting, exercise, diet, communication, love, life. The truth is that I binge nearly everything I do (except bureaucratic paperwork...i avoid that like the plague).

My recent pattern as it pertains to photography is to travel and shoot for months, excercise/hike obsessively, edit nothing, talk to no one, do very little business-related work and watch too much downloaded bs when I am (rightfully) exhausted after a long day. In stage 2, I return home from traveling and edit photos in a cave day and night, ignoring all of my other worldly responsibilities including fam/friends, my body and taking any new pictures.
Every once in a while I'll pop out and have a month or so where I'm extremely engaged and business focused. In these times I remember how rewarding human connection and feeling appreciated/seen can be. Nevertheless, soon enough I return to my ways because I don't have energy for everything at 100% all at once, or the focus and discipline to switch between tasks and create balance at less than 100% in most areas. To me this feels passionless, half-hearted.
I know my way is not the best way, but I love my current obsessions and the mastery I feel when I focus on only one area of my life at a time. I played basketball this way until my knees and ankles were destroyed and I could no longer take pride in my game. I love and talk to people this way, deeply and inquisitively, until I feel I have heard and shared everything that there is for the time being, then, I disappear to create new stories and talking points.
I know from a lot of kinds of feedback; personal, financial, algorithmic or otherwise, that the world at large does not support this way of life. I am working to adapt and find better ways of striking a balance. I am improving, but I wanted to share this explanation as a form of apology, and an as invitation for others to share their own stories about finding or not finding balance. I am especially interested in if others feel that responsible task management feels inherently dispassionate and how they deal with that.
Love and respect until next time....in the year 2039! 😉

The Soft Multitude-(swipe for uncropped)A lone sapling sits on a glacial flood plain surrounded by many acres of fluffy ...
03/18/2020

The Soft Multitude-(swipe for uncropped)
A lone sapling sits on a glacial flood plain surrounded by many acres of fluffy tundra dryads. Taken in mid-September in Alaska, colors are beginning to change and everything is imminently aware of the approaching cold.
Wrangell St. Elias is the largest national park in the US and is home to 9 of our 16 highest mountains, but has very few visitors each year because the approach roads are generally long and terrible. If this description gets you excited, then we would probably get along swimmingly... @ Wrangell-St. Elias National Park & Preserve

The Greeting Committee-This was taken my first night in the Yukon Territories after a thousand miles of fires in British...
03/16/2020

The Greeting Committee-
This was taken my first night in the Yukon Territories after a thousand miles of fires in British Columbia. I was greeted by a spectacular showing of the northern lights that started up before it even got dark. No they did not charge my solar panels and yes it was cold. Getting ready to head back out on the road after a couple of repairs on the camper and I can't wait.

Duality-Taken during a brief, but generally pleasant extraterrestrial abduction. No kangaroo rats were harmed during thi...
03/14/2020

Duality-
Taken during a brief, but generally pleasant extraterrestrial abduction. No kangaroo rats were harmed during this light painting extravaganza. Also, check how the sedimentary lines and colors of the foreground rock continue on into the crossbedded brainrock in background. Loved this place. @ Vermillion Cliffs National Monument

Electric Intersections- (scroll for black and white...lemme know, which version tickles your fancy) When I first came...
03/13/2020

Electric Intersections- (scroll for black and white...lemme know, which version tickles your fancy)
When I first came across this insane tic-tac-toe colony, it was dry. Formed by wind, water, ice and time, I desperately wanted to see the water element. A couple months later after studying some weather, I returned and got my wish...plus some. Flash flooding is much safer when you are on high ground like this, but the lightning makes things a little dicey...and awesome.
I'm leading workshops to this remote area later this spring and next fall. DM me if you wanna go explore that new new desert scenery and improve your skills. @ Page, Arizona

Shrine to The Otherworldly- While I certainly cannot lay claim to the discovery of this formation, I must say that aft...
03/06/2020

Shrine to The Otherworldly-
While I certainly cannot lay claim to the discovery of this formation, I must say that after much deliberation that I consider it to be the most outstanding singular hoodoo that I know of in the world. There are bigger ones. There are ones with more elaborate coloration, but for intricacy and overall visual impact-this is my pick. I rarely feel so definitively about hierarchical rankings of natural beauty, but this place left me speechless. It definitely helps that in the course of 48 hours exploring this area that I witnessed lightning strike behind it, a rainbow form overhead, a beautiful sunset explode behind it(pictured here) and to top it off, while shooting the milky way rising over it to the south, a burrowing owl silently flew into frame and sat motionless five feet away from me until the click of my camera shutter startled it. I promise to share these images in the coming weeks and look forward to hearing what you think. For now, please let me know in the comments about places or experiences in nature that were clearly a cut above.

Taken with D850 and 14-24 art @ Farmington, New Mexico

InFinCity-I spent a lot of time this last fall scouting areas I'd denoted as "insane looking" thru satellite imagery res...
03/05/2020

InFinCity-
I spent a lot of time this last fall scouting areas I'd denoted as "insane looking" thru satellite imagery research. What began as an afternoon hike lingered into the wee hours of the night as I saw just how mindbogglingly cool this entire area was.
This was one of the more difficult light painting challenges I've ever undertaken because the sandstone fins here are endless, but extremely delicate and I didn't want to crunch any as the only footprints I saw were from kangaroo rats on the lower right sand dune. While I understand the utility of low level lighting, for scenes with this much topography I am an advocate of high intensity low angle light bounced off of ones body and used creatively as one wanders around the scene. I never get it right on the first take, but I generally find the freedom to illuminate the scene in front of you as you read the landscape fun and exciting.

Stacked/Blend-
Nikon D850 with Sigma art 14-24 f/2.8
Ground: 982 seconds @ f/5.6 iso 64 light painting mission
Sky: 12 seconds x 20 stacked @ f/3.2 iso 10k

As Above So Below- I wanted to thank everybody who came out to the Superfine SF show. I felt the love from the old hom...
03/03/2020

As Above So Below-
I wanted to thank everybody who came out to the Superfine SF show. I felt the love from the old homies and was excited to be introduced to so many new awesome folks. We still have some inventory from the show, so if you saw something you liked hit me up and we'll make a deal.
This is from an area in the southwest that I'm obsessed with. I spent about 2 weeks this fall exploring a bunch of wierd patterns I spotted on google earth around this sandstone paradise and did not see or hear another person. I love the idea that even in 2020 there is still so much that is undiscovered to explore and experience.
Gonna try to get back on my social media grind more consistently, so watch for me.

What's up Bay Area friends and fam!? Please come through this weekend to my first public Bay Area art show and see the f...
02/26/2020

What's up Bay Area friends and fam!? Please come through this weekend to my first public Bay Area art show and see the fruits of my labor. This Thursday-Sunday I'll be one of 55 visual artists exhibiting at the Art Fair at Fort Mason. My exhibition is a range of pieces printed on metal, wood and archival art papers taken during my recent travels spanning the desert southwest to the Arctic circle.
I can promise you that seeing these photos printed really large in person will inspire awe and give you the feels....and seeing you there would give me the feels!
USE CODE "ONLINE" for 20% off tickets! Link in my bio. Address is on the included flyer, but holler at me if there's any confusion. @ Fort Mason Center for Arts & Culture

Elorah's Corridor- (swipe for uncropped)Black and white bomb drop ya'll!!! How will the interwebs handle it?!? I went to...
06/24/2019

Elorah's Corridor- (swipe for uncropped)

Black and white bomb drop ya'll!!! How will the interwebs handle it?!?

I went to the southwest about 50 times without ever paying much mind to the - total idiot move! There are a lot of huge canyons, immense saturated orange rock faces, insane arches and other mind-bending formations that yell louder to the uninitiated. I'm not saying "tune out the noise", but if you asked me right now where in the southwest I'd go first, would be my choice.
By nature of being made out mostly softer substrate these alien landscapes form and erode more quickly and thus take on the most astounding array of shapes of any place I've ever been to (there's a small area in Nevada that's somewhat heated about that comment). I can't wait to get back here later this summer.

Let me know in the comments if you are game for more black and white, or prefer the stream stays colorful.
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Cataclysmic Indifference- They say you should avoid high ground when there is lightning nearby, so after the first cl...
06/23/2019

Cataclysmic Indifference-
They say you should avoid high ground when there is lightning nearby, so after the first clap I stayed in this small slot canyon. They also say you should not kick it in slot canyons if there is a chance of rain because of flash flood potential... I scouted my exit and stayed down here anyway.
This is the base of a dryfall that looks like a meteor hit it and dropped a few seeds. This is a dryfall that became a waterfall about 30 minutes after this was snapped.
I make light of this, but if you ever find yourself in this situation, just get out of the slot canyon. Flash floods are legit, hit insanely fast and, in 99.9% of situations the edge of a slot won't be a high point to get struck by lightning.

* Brought to you by- Safety tips from a big fool.
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