F-Stop Collaborate and Listen Candace Dyar - Connection to the Landscape as a Photographer
Aug 16, 2017
Candace Dyar, a Washington-based landscape photographer with a painterly, fine-art sensibility. She talks about deep connection to wild places and conservation. She explores photography as a therapeutic practice and reflects on being a woman working alone in the field. Short, vivid stories of remote scenes and creative influences spark the conversation.
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Emotional Double Rainbow In American Basin
- Candace describes witnessing double rainbows in American Basin that felt surreal and deeply emotional.
- She and two friends were alone in a remote, storybook setting with deer, umbrellas, and tears, making the moment personally profound.
Photography As A Lifesaving Therapy
- Candace recounts starting photography during severe depression and anxiety as a therapeutic outlet.
- Picking up an SLR on hikes revealed details she previously missed and became a life-saving discovery that led to community support online.
Solitude In Nature Resets Perspective
- Being alone in nature reveals humility and alters self-perspective, making humans feel no more important than other life.
- Candace cites Sylvia, King County's biggest tree, producing oxygen and putting human actions in perspective.