Reuben Wu has a habit of turning personal passions into creative careers. First as a designer, then a musician, and now a photographer, Wu’s artistic drive knows no bounds. His hauntingly beautiful photographs juxtapose unnatural light with the natural landscape. He is equipment agnostic, using whatever device best serves his vision, including everything from drones to LED cube lights, fiber optics to medium format digital cameras.

For the casual observer, it may not be obvious how personal style could possibly factor into any outdoor photograph. When nothing in an image is manufactured, staged, posed, or strobed, the totality of a photographer’s contributions could be obscure to such viewers. It may even seem generous to say that any photographer can ever claim full responsibility for results that owe so much of their force to nature’s whims.