Inspired by the paintings of George Inness and Werner Herzog’s use of fictionalized versions of reality to find essential truths, I have created a series of photo-based constructed images responding to our environmental crisis. At first glance, the photographs are pictorial and idyllic, but a closer look disrupts the sublime. I have created visual metaphors bringing attention to the earth’s fragility and suggesting a hypothetical outcome when our natural world will be experienced only as a souvenir photograph in a scrapbook.