My name is Adam Johanknecht, and I’m a nature photographer, long-distance hiker, and seasonal worker. I’ve been pursuing photography since 2019, and I love how this passion has changed the way that I see and experience nature. In the spring of 2022 I quit my job as an engineer to hike the Pacific Crest Trail, and after rehabbing from a knee injury, I was able to hike 1,000 miles of the trail through Oregon and Washington! I brought my camera with me on the hike, and I was given the trail name “Cameraman” because I was always finding something that caught my eye to take pictures of. After the PCT, I found wildlife photography and birding as a new passion! You’ll see that passion for birds and wildlife in my newest images, though that hasn’t stopped me from creating landscape images too. In the summer and fall of 2023 I worked as a backcountry caretaker on the Long Trail in Vermont, which allowed me to live outside and continue to pursue my photography.