Michael Wilkins
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A snow-covered mountain massif fades into a white sky in a near-monochrome panorama, dark bands of rock marking the summit ridges.

Mountain, Erased

Iceland

Where the mountain ends is anyone's guess.

The overcast sat so low and so even that the mountain had no top edge — snow slope into cloud with no seam. I framed it wide and let the exposure lift until only the rock bands survived, drawing the ridgelines like pencil through the white. Half this panorama is empty. In Icelandic winter, empty is an accurate description.

Part of Iceland in Winter, a series.