I waited until the brilliant and bright afternoon light mellowed into the golden tones of early evening before taking this photograph. Watching as the light shifted around the barrels of the Saguaro cacti as the sun moved through the sky. This photograph is from the Saguaro Nati

This limited edition photograph is from the Lake Series and was taken on February 8th, 2024.

Aspen trees in the White River National Forest quiver in a light breeze. The White River National Forest is an interdependent, highly complex ecosystem that is always changing. Subtle transformations are occurring in real time as I hike on the trails. At every level there are c

Clouds punctuate the sky over Lake Michigan on February 15th, 2024, creating a rhythmic pattern in the air.

The landscape is constricted by the fog that surrounds me while the lake stirs restlessly underneath the dense morning air. This limited edition photograph is from the Lake Series, February 6th, 2024.

This photograph, Alpine Solstice I, was taken in the mountains outside of Ashcroft, Colorado. Soft winter light creates shadows in the snow while simultaneously illuminating the bark on a young Aspen tree.

Blue Here is a shell for you Inside you'll hear a sigh A foggy lullaby There is your song from me Blue by Joni Mitchell. This photograph from the Lake Series is from the end of January 2024.

The sky shifts from cool to warm to cool again as the sun sets at my back while I photograph Lake Michigan. The few clouds in the sky take on the late light of day, creating points of contrast overhead.

A morning on the lake where the sunlight splits clouds apart, dramatically slashing and illuminating the sky while water and light interact to create a dappled surface on Lake Michigan.

What will the winter lake look like? Blacker than last year's? Greyer than memory's grey? What hills and canyons will it slump and leap to? What steeds uphold? What shores attach and ravage? From the poem, Lakes Learn From the Season, by poet Ralph Pomeroy. This photograph from

A band of clouds run parallel to the horizon line of Lake Michigan in this photograph from early in the Lake Series. This is August 7th, 2016.

Land lies in water; it is shadowed green. Shadows, or are they shallows, at its edges showing the line of long sea-weeded ledges where weeds hang to the simple blue from green. Or does the land lean down to lift the sea from under, drawing it unperturbed around itself? Along the

“Blue Bottle buzzing Lazy days The sky blue butterfly Sways on the cornflower Lost in the warmth Of the blue heat haze Singing the blues Quiet and slowly   Blue of my heart Blue of my dreams Slow blue love Of delphinium days” An excerpt from Derek Jarman’s Blue, a meditation on

“To gaze at the river made of time and water And recall that time itself is another river, To know we cease to be, just like the river, And that our faces pass away, just like the water. To feel that waking is another sleep That dreams it does not sleep and that death, Which our

What is your relationship to nature? A question I keep circling back to as I recently returned to reading Maya Lin’s beautiful and deeply thoughtful book, Boundaries. I was struck by a passage exploring the relationships between photography and technology and the natural world:

Sunlight cuts through heavy storm clouds on April 4th, 2024, illuminating green lake waters filled with waves just starting to build in size.

Ralph Pomeroy’s Lakes Learn From the Season puts beautifully the qualities of an ever changing Lake Michigan as spring arrives. Pomeroy, attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and the University of Illinois before leaving to live and teach in San Francisco. Lakes Le

Wild Ducks on the Chicago River by Sterling North, captures perfectly an impulse that I have felt many times myself when photographing Lake Michigan and the surrounding landscape. There is something about seeing wildlife, from the expected animals like ducks and geese to the more

The Impossibility of Place was an exhibition of photographs at the Peninsula Chicago in 2018. From the exhibition text: The Peninsula Chicago is honored to feature this exclusive exhibit by photographer, Lincoln Schatz, through 2018 in our 5th floor lobby. Lincoln Schatz, a loc

Presenting Lake Series: Looking Over Time, a nine-month collection of lake photographs from artist Lincoln Schatz. In this edition Schatz invites viewers to slow the pace of daily life and to take time to commune with the lake.  "Color, light, weather and time all work together