While on vacation in Austria my friend and I went on a couple of hikes through the mountains. Even though I went to Austria to write, the mountain landscape invited me to make a couple of photographs.
During the last hike I was struck by a rather blocky mountain whose shape reminded me of its genesis. Behind this mountain was another, much pointier, one. All with their characteristic (and, dare I say, picturesque) remains of snow. I found myself on a steep slope with unruly vegetation. With my 100 mm lens I shot what was visible of the distant mountains from my viewpoint. My hiking partner had descended and I was alone. Suddenly the view of the landscape connected a couple of loose ends in my head, it was not a flash but more a wave of clarity. Standing next to one of the unruly bushes I realised how this contrasted as well as resembled / agreed with the clean harsh points in the distance. How a single photograph (the decisive moment if you wish) can never portray the individuality of the artist. With a slightly longer shutterspeed I shot some photographs of the mountain on which I myself stood, to be able to construct the landscape as I saw it in my mind during that moment of clarity.
