Raging brush fire in Tehachapi, California, sparked by a plane crash that claimed two lives, September 4, 2011. Twelve houses were destroyed as tens of thousands of acres burned over three days. 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.