Snowdonia National Park, Wales. (Credit: Daniel Alford)

Nature is big—there’s no doubting that, but just how does one capture the vast size of it all in one frame? Easy, shrink the humans.

Photographer Daniel Alford from Cardiff, Wales began his photography shooting landscapes, but later decided to rethink his work when he realized his favorite photographs always contained people—tiny people.

“This came as a surprise when I looked back through my work,” Alford told weather.com. “I love the sense of scale tiny figures add to an image and the narrative it gives.”

The giant size of natural wonder is clearly put into perspective when humans are juxtaposed next to giant mountains and against vast waterscapes. He has traveled to places like the Cairngorms National Park in Scotland; Cape Town, South Africa; and Gullfoss Waterfall, Iceland to photograph teeny tiny people in big places.

Alford didn’t always favor the “human” element in his photographs, though. He said that he used to “avoid anything human” in his photography. “I wanted wilderness and uncontaminated natural beauty,” he said.

Now, the Welsh photographer finds that human interaction with the world to be the most important and most relevant element because of the role we play in our environment. “We need to reconnect responsibility with the natural world, realize we are a part of it and [that] it’s a part of us too,” he said.