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Coburn Brandon

Hi, I’m Coburn.

Cultivating awe and connection through a love of nature.

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A hummingbird hovering at trumpet vine flowers in bright light

Selected work

A prothonotary warbler, gold-headed and slate-winged, perched on a green vine
A heron flying low across rippled green water
A summer tanager, brilliant red, among deep green leaves
A great blue heron holding a fallen feather in its beak
An indigo bunting on a bare branch in dappled light
A black swallowtail butterfly feeding on a pink thistle
A barred owl facing the camera, framed by leaves
A bald eagle turning against an open blue sky
Coburn Brandon on the trail at Radnor Lake, camera in hand

About

I grew up on the creek that feeds this lake.

Otter Creek, in Nashville, Tennessee. I walked it for miles as a boy. It was social, it was solitude, it was enlightenment, it was adventure. That creek runs down into Radnor Lake, and Radnor is where you’ll find me now.

I found photography a few years later, and it was one of the only things that could get me off the computer. The computer won. I studied computer engineering and spent a decade building software, though I never quite put the camera down. During my last startup I became obsessed with a clip-on macro lens and shot flowers with it all over the West Coast.

In 2025, I gave myself a year to discover my next obsession. It was harder than that sounds: a lot of exploration, a lot of pivots, no structure to hold onto. But at some point, a camera ended up in my hands. Four months later, the mega zoom lens you see here.

I took it to Radnor on June 4th, 2026, and I’ve been back nearly every morning since. Up at 4:30am, three Morning Pages in longhand, then out to the park for whatever I find beautiful, from herons and owls down to the small worlds the naked eye can’t see. After a year without a shape, this quickly became a foundation.

At the park, I say good morning to almost everyone I pass, and that’s turned out to matter as much as the photographs. Every morning, I meet someone new, see someone familiar, and come back with something I’m glad I made. I’m trying to be open to where this takes me, as long as I can keep creating and sharing beautiful things with others.

Commissions & prints

I take on a small number of commissions each year: prints for a specific wall, custom work for a space, or a particular subject you have in mind.

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