The photographer
Craig Goodwin
How it started
Craig came to photography through Colorado's backcountry. He spent years off-roading — treating trails as races rather than experiences, always focused on the next destination, rushing through remarkable places without really seeing them.
Then, while researching a trail on YouTube, he watched an astrophotographer speak about spending his one week of annual vacation photographing a location that Craig had the freedom to visit whenever he wanted. The man talked with a depth of presence and passion that stopped Craig cold.
That moment reframed everything. He realized he was moving through the world without being in it. Photography became the practice of slowing down — of actually looking at the places he'd been rushing past. The camera became the reason to stop.
That perspective is the soul of Share The Sky.
"It was a musical thing, and you were supposed to sing or to dance while the music was being played." — Alan Watts
The work
Craig photographs six categories: landscape and wilderness, astrophotography, wildlife, air shows and aviation, street and urban, and museums and culture. All from Colorado — a state that contains multitudes.
His landscape work favors the early morning and last light. His astrophotography happens in the small hours at altitude, where the sky becomes enormous and the Milky Way rises over ridgelines that hikers crossed hours earlier. His wildlife work is built on patience — becoming part of the landscape long enough that the subject forgets you are there.
The common thread: paying attention. Looking up. Looking longer.