Ludwig Favre Pays Homage to The Natural World in Haunting Photos

close to a pine forest in Oregon when I found myself completely alone," the photographer Ludwig Favre tells me. "There was no one around--not even a single noise." The silence and darkness setting his nerves on edge, he was well-aware that he was "in the middle of nowhere" in an area he didn't know. He worried his car might break down; the possibility of an unwanted encounter in the woods ran through his mind. But in the open air, inhaling the scent of the evergreen trees, he continued to work--...