One Rider, One Face — New Zealand

A lone snowboarder in dark clothing carving down a vast, steep, untracked snow face, a thin line of spray behind the board, a wall of rock and snow rising beside the run and a sharp snow-covered peak against blue sky beyond. — One Rider, One Face
New Zealand · September 2020
1D X Mark II, 28 millimetres, f 4, 1/4000 of a second, ISO 100

A mountain's worth of snow, and one line down it.

The rider is small on purpose. This is a frame about the face, which runs from the top left corner to the bottom right without a single track on it, and the one person about to change that. The rock wall on the right and the peak beyond give it a sense of how steep it actually is, which the flat light otherwise hides.

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Part of The Southern Alps, a series.