Do you know the nature photographs of Joan Klostermann-Ketels? She's put together a book of photographs of trees, each one showing a human emotion. (Each one is also paired with a quotation.) Totally different from what you have here, but the photos draw you, pull you into nature and spur you to pay attention to the world around us. It brings imagination and a sense of mysticism back to the outdoors.

Another thing — your remark about telling a story reminds me of going to the new wing of the Art Institute of Chicago back in the fall and seeing a display of photos depicting a specific day from all over the country, I believe it was. And — I don't know if you've seen it or not — but I didn't think it worked at all. Without explanations, I never would have known what the photographer was aiming at. I was hugely disappointed in it.