Three years ago, I was photographing an urban, old-growth forest near my home in Atlanta, Georgia, USA. I learned to use a drone during that commission to photograph the forest canopy and to show the close location of the forest to the downtown skyscrapers. The genesis of the Construction Sites series came on the half-hour drive to and from my home to the forest.
Along the drive, I saw many construction sites where neighborhoods were being converted to larger mixed use developments. I thought that the low altitude aerial perspective from a drone would be a new way to document this change. I started by photographing the sites early in the morning or late in the afternoon when there was no work going on. This was mostly for safety reasons, but the light is also more to my liking at these times. I also wanted to emphasis the construction landscape without the workers.