Madeline Tolle

Even when I'm not "working," I'm taking pictures. I find that the pictures I take for myself, the ones just for "the love of the game," are the ones that push me further creatively. On my own time, I love photographing landscapes. Whenever I get the chance, I'm always thinking about two big things:

1: How do I make this composition so it's not just a horizontal band of sky above a horizontal band of land? How does this become dynamic? What brings it to life?

2. How do I capture what this place feels like in a way that is both honest and beautiful?

Those may not seem like big things, but they're harder to answer than it seems. In the answering of these two things and truly looking, I'm able to push myself further creatively and think more deeply about photography, which ultimately becomes part of the way I see and what I then bring to my interior design shoots.

Here's a selection of landscape photos I made in Tasmania, one of my all time favorite places in the world. One of the greatest gifts I ever gave myself was taking the time to go explore this very far away place very slowly and take all the pictures.