I spent two nights in Salt Lake City with the aim of photographing the iconic buildings of the Church of Latter Day Saints and exploring the city framed by mountains. While Temple Square was closed for renovation, the striking conference centre and historic administration buildings more than made up for it.

After leaving the red rock country of Utah, I continued west to the vast emptiness of the Bonneville Salt Flats, where the land dissolves into an endless white horizon. Standing alone on the crusted salt under a huge sky felt like stepping onto another planet, a place defined by scale, silence and the strange beauty of absolute nothingness.

After my Aspen workshop I drove four hours into the Utah desert to explore Arches National Park, basing myself overnight in Moab just outside the gates. Despite the scorching heat, the crowds were light and the reward was an unforgettable landscape of towering, time-worn rock formations that felt utterly other-worldly.