Iowa’s 99 started as a solution to a desire to do more with my photography. It has become…something so much more. A connection, a commitment, and a sincere invitation to anyone who hears or reads about it, to step outdoors and explore the natural spaces around you, here in Iowa or wherever you may live.

Iowa’s 99 began with a simple realization: I had lived in Iowa most of my life, yet my understanding of it was incomplete. I knew the highways, the towns I passed through, and the places I was told were “worth seeing.” But I hadn’t really seen Iowa—not its quiet prairies, overlooked parks, back roads, or the stories held in each county.