Tucked into the southern rim of Hocking Hills, this vast recess cave opens like a sandstone sanctuary, shaped not by hands but by water and time. The trail leading in is quiet, hemmed by hemlocks and the soft murmur of a creek, until the forest parts and the cave rises: 700 feet wide, 100 feet deep, and crowned by a seasonal waterfall that spills like a veil from the rim above.

Why do we photograph trees? Why is it that many photographers love to use trees as photographic subjects? It makes you contemplate whether trees, like humans, have souls. Each individual tree is unique in many ways, even within species. Much like we humans, they possess their own shapes, beauty, faults, and their own life cycles.