Learning to See – Sierra Nevada Ally

Learning to See – Sierra Nevada Ally

Landscape photographer Scott Mortimore, in the field. Image courtesy of Femke Mortimore. When I ask Scott Mortimore about his memories of being a kid, he says that he pictures himselfwith his Kodak Brownie box camera swinging from a leather strap around his neck. As I talkwith Scott, I’m struck that so many of his earliest memories are inseparable from his love forlandscape photography. At six years old, his family traveled to Yellowstone, where…