The dark one of the series, taken as a massive storm approached at sunset. The marble-sized hailstones that followed pelted the trees and the rest of the day smelled of pine. North Tahoe, California 2010. Cole Rise has spent the better half of his life behind the lens; stalking cows and lying in the grass to capture the landscape. He can't tell you how big the universe is, or why we're really here, but his work sometimes flirts with the idea of knowing.