corwinprescott

How did I end up here

In the Summer of 2010 I was sitting at my uncle's kitchen table telling him that the year before I had driven straight through Utah to Las Vegas for a photoshop conference, but that this time I wanted to see more of it. My uncle lives high up in the Sangre de Christo's in a house made of straw.

He had me go out to my car and get my atlas. I didn't even have a smart phone at the time. There was no Patreon, no instagram, barely a tumbler. He circled a town on the map, and told me if you ...

Rainey Dae for The Jungle

Some first shoots you know are going to be the first of many! This afternoon on the creek with Rainey Dae was one of those. Her posing is absolutely incredible. Felt like I couldn't take a bad photo, and we shot maybe for like 45 minutes and I was like...

Well we got way too many and I have to edit these, so best we stop now and plan another shoot

BBSerinna for The Jungle

I've been trying to be proactive. The pandemic changed my life in ways I forget. I was shooting so infrequently that I was not really reaching out to people to work together. Every two weeks or so somebody would reach out, and I would have been quarantined to spend time with a partner...I didn't have a ton of time.

I realize things have been different for a while now, but I sort of forgot the most important part of working with new people is reaching out to them. Its always so awkw...

Arabelle Raphael for The Jungle

There is something about the moment you take a photo of somebody and you know its the best photo you have ever taken of them. Its so thrilling the light the pose, the color the world around them. The spot I'm standing.

You can't replicate it because the world outside your door is never the same, and why would you? The spot is done now. Time to take thirty steps further down stream, thirty steps up stream, time to see what the light looks like 3 hours later, time to wait and see w...

Yhivi for The Jungle

Early spring in the garden with Yhivi, she's stopped by Portland to visit a couple of times. Enough that we've become pretty good friends, eaten soup, gone mushroom hunting. I'm so stoked that we finally got to take some really beautiful photos in nature. She's one of those people in the industry that I love bouncing around the forest with, and exploring. Eating adventures too.

I love a silly person that loves nature, takes it in, almost sort of exudes the woods back out of themsel...

Erna and Vaunt for The Jungle

What a day what a day!

After years of following Erna, Nicole and I were so excited to finally have here visit us here in Oregon for a few days of creating! She came over early in the afternoon on a perfectly cloudy day! I was especially excited because the Rhododendron's had blooms a little early from the warm weather, and we were able to take advantage of flower's I wasn't anticipating being around for her trip.

This was our very first shoot of many for the trip, and I am so...

The Jungle with Sierhaus

January 2020 I was in a crazy penthouse room in Las Vegas during AVN. My friend Penny had invited me over to photograph her and a friend together, and then told me hey I got this room for free you can come by and shoot as much as you want. I ended up doing quite a few shoots in that room, and I was lucky enough to meet Sierhaus there.

I had to leave Vegas in a hurry for a gig in Sedona, and on my way there I came down with one of the worst flu's I have ever had...was it Covid. I wil...

Poppyseed Dancer and Nicole Vaunt on the Olympic Peninsula

Before there was Iceland there was Olympic National Park. One of the very first places I fell in love with photographing, hiking, and just and camping. I've taken so many people to the most North Western part of the lower 48 to just experience what it is to be there. Deep in our only Rain Forest, it is cold, cloudy, it is tranquil, it is one of the most refreshing and inspiring places I get to spend time.

When I first moved from Philly to Seattle it seemed like a no brainer to do a...

Hattie Watson for The Jungle

I absolutely love how many people I have been able to work with over my career over and over again. I can't remember off the top of my head when Hattie and I first shot 2011 or so? We're officially moving past Richard Linklater's 12 years of working on Boyhood...lol.

It feels so nice to have an entire generation of peers growing and working together over and over again. You can see how much we've changed in our ideas of art, our desires as people, our understandings of the world. W...

Kerry St Glam for The Jungle

Last autumn I was lucky enough to have Kerry come up to work with me after having talked for almost 5 years. You never know when the stars are going to align for a shoot, so I try to always be ready and stay in touch.

I am so so so so stoked with how this shoot went. I'm in the middle of working on my next book right now, and trying to figure out which of these to work into that project! Let me know if you have any favorites!

JL Brooks for The Jungle

Had an absolutely amazing shoot day with JL Brooks.  We talked about all sorts of wild craft stuff, and I managed to convince her to give wine making a try!  Not sure if I have shared much of my venture into homebrewing, but I've really gotten carried away with the hobby.  

The past two months I've made about 20 gallons of wine and mead from the blackberries that grow on our property...its a bit much, especially since Nicole and I only drink maybe a bottle of wine every ...

Devi for The Jungle

What a magical afternoon creating with one of the best models on the planet.  These were shot just outside my front and backdoor in the garden, I absolutely love the late afternoon light in both spots, the way the green world in the background falls out of focus and the colors sit so intensely saturated. 

Irises with Vaunt

It feels good to be creating in the garden again.  Winter was rough 

Early summer with PNW Sage

I chase the light around our property, sometimes in the deep woods, sometimes out in the open as the sun falls down.  The sun is always setting somewhere be it set behind a tree, or falling down below the horizon.

Into the Wild with Anoush

What a lovely morning exploring the forest with Anoush

Flora with Lillias Right

Lillias convinced me to leave the house back in the fall and head up into the mountains to visit a waterfall.  The days are short and I was still a little run down from a covid infection the month positive, so we didn't make it all the way to the waterfall...but we still had an awesome shoot in the fall foliage.  

Porcelain for Into The Wild

Porcelain and I have been shooting for over a decade now, but we've really never done a full Into the Wild shoot until now!! She is one of the main reasons the series Flora even exists because of her ability to emote in front of the camera, but I'm so excited we were able to create these incredible images

Unskinny Shero in the Guestroom

I don't know if there will ever be another Temperance, but maybe I'm figuring out the beginning of it. I'm such a different person than I was when that series ended, even more so than when it began.

Space informs creativity so much, and back in Philadelphia the space outside didn't offer much in terms of inspiration.  Since moving here to Portland I feel so much freedom to explore nature in new and exciting ways.  I don't have to only take picture to create, or express my lov...

Flora with Devi

I’m in production on my next big book. Feels stressful feels exciting. Feels scary. But I think I’m ready

Koi Erotica for The Jungle

Floofie for The Jungle

Nox Falls for Into the Wild

Late spring snowfall and flowers was a bizarre backdrop for this shoot with Nox. Partially cloudy I felt like I was struggling a little bit to put the image in my head on camera. But it all came together

Mason Yoga for Into the Wild

Since finishing my book I've felt like I'm at a cross roads with too many directions I can head.  I'm plagued with indecision, while also trying to afford myself patience.  I have time to take more than one road.  I have time to explore different things at my own pace.  

A little throwback with Sash

Over the course of putting my 10 year retrospective of Into the Wild together I found a ton of shoots that weren't for the series, that I had forgotten about, and in the spirit of getting completely distracted from finishing the book I sat down and updated the edits of some of those shoots...

Its wild how much your work changes over time.  It happens slowly, but each little change leads you down a new path, and while I don't notice it changing a ton, its wild to see where I am on t...

Unskinny Shero for The Jungle

Time is moving so quickly these days.  I have a hard time remembering what happened when.  Years ago I messaged Carina on instagram, and then even more years passed before we finally managed to plan something.

Then a month...months(?) ago it happened.  I could look it up, but I'm writing this from the wrong computer.  

I've been trying to take my time with things now.  I can't tell if that is what makes it feel so much faster, or if its the accumulation m...

Trillium

It’s a delicate flower trillium and one of our best indicators of the health of the forest. A flower with delicate roots, only capable of producing enough energy to bring itself back the next year.

A lot of people believe that you can not pick it. That to take one of these is to ensure that it will not return, and that is half true. If you take just the tiny flower above the three leaves and leave the rest below trillium will come back the next year. It will invest more of itsel...

Zoey JPEG for The Jungle

I love the blooming flowers of spring.  The magnolias falling all around us.  The first signs of life.

Tulips

Documenting what beauty we could grow became one of the few ways @vauntastic and I could pull ourselves out of the helplessness that felt our whole reality in 2020.  We did not yet know the plants well enough to know how quickly each one would come and go.

Some days we would look at a flower and think, tomorrow it will be perfect.  Some tomorrows the flower would be already dead, or gone taken by cold, or time, or the deer that eat our plants when found unprotected.

Th...

Yung Succubus for The Jungle II

Yung Succubus for The Jungle

This past summer was just amazing.  I worked for the first time with Yung Succubus, who is just incredibly talented in front of the camera.  We managed to create three completely different sets one afternoon in the forest, in the creek, and I can't wait to share them all with you.