If you’ve been reading the blog for a while, you might have caught on that Mr. F and I are hikers.  Not quite in the super long distance-backpackers way ( though Mr. F could do it and has! ), but when the weather is good, most of our weekends are spent winding our way through the woods.  We love winter time, the cold and the snow, but the chillier season means that we go for long stretches without out woodsy walking.  And that can make us a mite antsy.  In these in-camera(!!) multiple exposure portraits, UK photographer Christoffer Relander  reminds us that even in dormant seasons, there is a wilderness in each of us.

It only had to do with how it felt to be in the wild. With what it was like to walk for miles for no reason other than to witness the accumulation of trees and meadows, mountains and deserts, streams and rock, rivers and grasses, sunrises and sunsets.
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild

I’ve been reading the book quoted above lately and so much of it rings true for me.  How we start out on each journey with so much baggage, slowly stripping ourselves of what isn’t necessary, how much nature welcomes us and takes care of us.  And once we spend time in her presence, how every other place no matter how welcome, feels foreign and cold.

I’m hoping Mr. F and I are able to get out into the woods a little this weekend, my soul needs a bit of a recharge.  Hope you have a wonderful restful weekend, too!  Perhaps you’ll be able to embrace a bit of your own inner wilderness.

To see more of Christoffer Relander‘s work, please visit his website.

All images are via the artist’s website.  Artist found via This is Colossal.