Michael Wilkins
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A snowboarder in a tan jacket and helmet carving hard through deep powder, body low and hand nearly touching the snow, the board throwing a curtain of spray behind.

Into the Turn

New Zealand · August 2017

1D X Mark II, 200 millimetres, f 2.8, 1/8000 of a second, ISO 500

The hand is about a foot off the snow.

You get one pass at a line like this before it is tracked out, so the shooting is mostly about having decided where to stand well in advance. Low, fast, and close enough that the spray comes towards the lens rather than away from it.