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High-key photograph of a row of tall bare poplars along a pale stony lake shore, the trees dark against an almost white sky with soft teal water and faint hills beyond.

Poplars

New Zealand · August 2020

1D X Mark II, 24 millimetres, f 22, 18 seconds, ISO 400

White sky, white shingle, and a row of trees to hold it together.

Blown-out sky, pale shingle beach, and one row of poplars doing all the structural work. I exposed for the trees and let everything else run up toward white — the lake keeps just enough teal to separate from the sky, and the far hills are barely there at all. The stones along the bottom give the eye a starting point and nothing else in the frame is asked to do much.