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Photograph of Lake Wakatipu and the snow-covered Remarkables range seen beneath the dark spreading branches of a bare tree, a pine-covered peninsula reaching into the blue water.

Through the Branches

Queenstown, New Zealand · June 2019

iPhone X, 4 millimetres, f 1.8, 1/2200 of a second, ISO 20

The branches were in the way, so I used them.

Shot from under a bare tree on the Queenstown shoreline with the branches filling the top third of the frame. They were unavoidable from this spot, so rather than fight them I let them close the top and stopped down enough to keep them sharp. The peninsula and the Remarkables sit in the gap underneath. Cheap trick, works every time.

Part of The Southern Alps, a series.