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A near-monochrome snow basin ringed by jagged, rock-ribbed peaks, a set of looping ski tracks crossing the fresh snow, a tiny second figure in the middle distance and, in the foreground, one rider in a red jacket moving through powder, the only colour in the frame.

The Red Jacket

New Zealand · September 2020

iPhone 11 Pro Max, 4 millimetres, f 1.8, 1/14300 of a second, ISO 32

One colour, deliberately.

The basin is enormous and almost entirely white, so the red jacket is doing all the work: it tells you where to look and how big everything else is. The tracks looping across the middle are somebody else's, and the second figure further up is smaller still. A phone frame with the colour pulled out of everything except the one thing that mattered.

Part of The Southern Alps, a series.