Solitude is hard to find these days, and harder still to capture in an image. But that’s just what award-winning photographer Russ Hartung does in his photographs of the majestic peaks and intimate views of the Adirondacks.
Adirondack Solitude: Peace and Stillness in the Adirondack Wilderness (Globe Pequot, 2025) explores the feeling of being on top of a mountain before sunrise and watching the light change over the landscape.
It captures the serenity of drifting across a misty lake in a kayak and hearing a loon’s echoing call in the distance; the chorus of enveloping rain from a sudden thunderstorm while on the trail, and the answering symphony of peepers along the shore heard from the warmth of a tent in the evening.
And it’s the vicarious feeling Hartung shares when he sees someone paddling slowly across a shrouded lake in the fog or a lone figure staring off towards the horizon from atop a rocky outcrop at the end of a hard climb.
Whether it’s a wide-open view at the top of a High Peak or the miniature world brimming over in a hidden rock pool, both the towering and the tiny inspire this sort of awe-inspiring connectedness.
Russ Hartung is a physician and photographer living in the Adirondacks. His photography has been published by outlets such as NationalGeographic.com, Adirondack Life Magazine, and LocalADK Magazine, and his work has been shown in exhibitions at Lake Placid Center for the Arts, Tupper Lakes Center for the Arts, and the Adirondack Artists Guild Gallery in Saranac Lake, among many other galleries.
This is his first published book of photography.
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