Work / 2026
Snowline
- Place
- Alps
- Made
- January 2026
- Frames
- 11
Ridges stacked into the distance, made on a week of short walks above a valley that never quite cleared.
I went up for clear weather and got a week of inversion instead: a lid of cloud over the valley, and above it a sky that came and went by the hour. It turned out to be the better week. The fog sorted the mountains into layers, each one a little paler than the one in front of it.
Most of these were made with a longer lens from the same handful of viewpoints, a short walk from where I was staying. I wanted the ridges to read almost as drawings — edges first, detail second.
Technical notes
- Lenses
- 70–200 mm for nearly everything, a 90 mm prime for the rest
- Exposure
- Generous, about +1 to +1⅔ over the meter to keep snow white
- Conditions
- Valley inversion most days; −6 to −14 °C at the viewpoints
- Processing
- Cool white balance kept as shot; no added haze