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A wide panorama of a snow-covered mountain massif with a sharp rock spire at its centre, dark pine forest running up the slopes below and a thin lens cloud above the summit.

The Massif

Chamonix, France · January 2018

1D X Mark II, 47 millimetres, f 11, 1/500 of a second, ISO 400

One cloud, parked on the summit.

The single lens cloud sitting on the top is what makes this worth keeping — without it the sky is empty and the peaks have nothing to be measured against. Shot from across the valley with a long lens to stack the forest up against the rock.

Part of The Alps in Winter, a series.