Relative Motion No. 6
Sunset through Yosemite fires, 2008. the quality of light through the smoke throughout the day was so surreal, it became a point of inspiration years later, when I used the color palette from this and another photo to create the Sierra filter on inst
Distant Hills No. 7: What would an eclipse look like in a binary star system with an atmospheric moon? Maybe this. Wallpapers & limited edition prints now available on the website.
Distant Hills No. 6, my new trapper-keeper cover. Wallpaper available on the website.
If mars had oceans, i’d imagine it to look like Point Lobos, CA. Another re-edit of a photo taken in 2010. Slowly refreshing the portfolio & website, where you can see this one bigger.
Explorations with Space No. 4 Revisiting this photo after a decade, to see where the color process would take me today. Many of my old photo editing techniques were baked into the Instagram filters I had worked on back in 2010, which dates a lot o
Relative Motion: No.5 That white dot is Mercury transiting the sun, inverted in long exposure while racking the zoom lens. Taken with a solar filter on a cloudy day through the trees. In other news, i’m applying to fly to the moon as part of
though we all occupy one small planet, not all of us are afforded equal rights and respect. i stand with the black community and the Black Lives Matter movement, learning more each day about what it truly takes to be a better ally. tap the link in my

For the curious,

Cole Rise is a fine art and travel photographer who’s work flirts with space and the surreal. When not behind a camera, he’s a serial entrepreneur, designer, pilot, and space camera maker. He’s known for designing the Instagram filters and icon. In 2013, he sold his design company to Apple and launched Litely, one of the top-rated photo editing apps, and later served as the Chief Creative at Polaroid, where he pioneered a new type of interactive photograph. He’s currently working on a documentary called “Making the Moon Camera,” following the history and rebuilding of the cameras we sent to the moon.

 

Clients

  • Polaroid

  • Etihad Airways

  • U.S. National Park Service

  • Land Rover

  • National Geographic

  • Conde Nast Traveller

  • Diane Von Furstenberg

  • American Express

  • Matador Networks

  • Pop Photo

  • Jordanian Tourism Board

  • Icelandic Tourism Board

  • Fjord Norway

  • Harley-Davidson

  • Beachcomber Hotels

  • SolarCity

  • Sony

  • Salesforce

  • GE

  • Flyleaf

Gear

  • NASA Hasselblad Electric Data Camera

  • Hasselblad 907X / CFV II 50C

  • Hasselblad 500 C/M - 80mm F2.8

  • Leica MP - 35mm F1.4

  • Sony A7RII

  • Canon 5D Mark III - 24mm F1.4

  • iPhone 12 Pro

  • DJI Inspire, Mavic

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