Where water meets the land

Water changes the feeling of a place. On the coast, it opens the view and draws the eye toward the horizon. At a waterfall, it gathers the landscape into a closer, more immediate scene.

These photographs follow that contrast across Thailand: beaches at the edge of the sea, then waterfalls in Kanchanaburi and Ranong. The settings are different, but each one gave me a reason to pause and listen to the landscape around it.

I like keeping these places together because they bring back different kinds of quiet—the wide stillness of the shore and the steady movement of water through the forest.