photo of chad torkelsen

Chad Torkelsen is an adventure photographer based in the Pacific Northwest. He’s spent much of the past decade capturing breathtaking views worldwide and sharing the moments we feel most alive.

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swipe to make it spring ❄️🌺 >> "Winter's Chase" bidders edition is live on Foundation!! The auction reserve for "The Chase" has been changed to .069eth. An edition of "Winter's Chase" will be airdropped to each
into the highlands 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 #earthoutdoors
painted peak 🏔️
flow.
It’s the moments we feel the small, that teach us to dream big.
29 Today. It’s been a crazy year filled with some highest highs and lowest lows of my life. I’ve made mistakes, had some success, and like to think I’ve been able to learn some lessons from it all. I don’t know what lies in
You chase spontaneity when you really need routine. Yet, those same routines crush you till you can hardly breathe. Why is happiness so hard to find? always under the next rock, over the hill, just a step away but forever out of reach. You&rs
Fall in the Adirondacks 🍂 These photos are part of my new NFT edition project titled: 8 Week Editions, minting live now. Every eight weeks I will be releasing three new editions, and a single 1/1. Each release is referred to as an “episode
Postcards from an Oregon summer.
Fallin Frames. Everyday I’m scared of what it really means to live, what it means give it my all. What if I got it wrong? What if there’s a better way? I’ve been writing a bit more than normal lately it’s been really cathart
A story of loneliness. I’ve always felt a bit like an outsider, since I was young I found myself as more a social observer than part of the fun. Self questioning if I was accepted, if I belonged, and even at times if I was wanted at all. I
I spent so much time an actor of the character I wanted to play, I found myself a stranger to the one I had become.