A black and white photo of Claire. The photographer behind nomadiclens.co

Hey, I’m Claire, a travel photographer living life on the road, camera in hand.

Nature has always felt like wonder to me. For a long time, I was more on the outside looking in, collecting seashells, feathers, and anything I could hold onto. But photography changed that. It let me step right into the beauty and capture a moment exactly as it felt.

I’m usually somewhere outside, chasing golden hour, wandering through the mountains, or living slow in a camper with the windows open and the world just outside.

I think we all look for beauty in our everyday lives, whether it’s a stranger’s smile or the details of something small and overlooked. That’s why I take photos.
To hold onto those moments, to share them with you, and to point back to the Creator who made it all.

​If you’re here, I hope you find a bit of calm, a bit of wonder, and maybe even a reminder to slow down and take it all in.

A vast desert landscape with colorful, layered rock formations and distant mountains under a cloudy sky.

Favorite National Park:

Yosemite

Number of National Parks visited:

34

 Sunset is my favorite 


First Rodeo:

Cody Wyoming

Musician?

Violinist

Favorite Hidden Jem:

Bentonite Hills, Utah

I take way too many photos of the same scene

l'll be drinking Matcha ;)

The national parks so far

Acadia
Arches
Biscayne
Black Canyon of the Gunnison
Bryce Canyon
Canyonlands
Capitol Reef
Carlsbad Caverns
Everglades
Gateway Arch
Glacier
Grand Canyon
Grand Teton
Great Sand Dunes
Great Smoky Mountains
Guadalupe
Hot Springs

Joshua Tree
Kings Canyon
Mammoth Cave
Mesa Verde
Mount Rainier
New River Gorge
Olympic
Petrified Forest
Pinnacles
Redwood
Saguaro
Sequoia
Shenandoah
White Sands
Yellowstone
Yosemite
Zion

Awards

Sony Youth World Photography Awards 2025