BEAUTY: Photography--Peter Essick

Photographer Peter Essick must fly a drone to capture these marvelous images that read like fascinating abstract paintings full of texture. Hovering over construction sites, stacked shipping containers, or areas of mud, gravel, and snow, he frames and composes his shots so they are disconnected from their surroundings, making them objects of beauty in and of themselves. A statement on his website says, "His goal is to make photographs that move beyond documentation to reveal in careful compositions the human impact of development as well as the enduring power of the land."

http://www.peteressick.com/