I’m excited to have recently discovered Tom Reed, a wilderness photographer whose deeply thoughtful creative journey has led him to create two beautiful books on the spiritual epiphany of mountain views.

I’ve reviewed both books in Gatherings (The Granite Avatars of Patagonia and Moved by a Mountain: Inspiration from an Alpine View in Alaska), but I want to share his TedX talk (from Homer, Alaska) on “Natural Beauty and Aesthetic Arrest” here: