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Silhouetted trees at sunrise. Joshua Tree National Park, CA

Nicki Frates is a landscape photographer who blends a deep reverence for nature and an appetite for adventure with an intuitive eye to create images that offer a distinctive and passionate perspective of the physical world. Nicki’s personal and professional accomplishment in the medium defies the fact that she has only been shooting professionally for the past year. Driven by the beauty of the subject and a precision for technique, she has quickly accumulated a gallery of esteemed work. Nicki’s immediate following in the landscape photography world was accelerated by the release of an image she shot in Yosemite entitled “Fire Falls.” This shot captured the magic of a natural phenomenon that rarely occurs and only when the elements and...