Hopefully people will understand my concept here. I meant to use the negative space (the sky and snow) to isolate me and the mountain, which is all that exists in your mind. I appear rather small in the frame, and I'm HOPING people can still tell I'm a person and not a tree (obviously looks a lot better with fullsize).
This wasn't my original idea for this challenge. My other idea involved a trip to approximately the same remote location, but was botched due to snowmobilers and their disturbance of the snow surface. This dawned on me once I saw my initial idea was out of question. To capture it, I set my camera to interval shooting, and had it shooting from another part of the ridge about a third of a mile away or so. The camera took a photo every 30 seconds. The winds were very high here, and a lot of my shots were not suitable because I was partially or completely obscured by blowing snow. At its worst, the wind gusted to approximately 65mph, and I was momentarily unable to stand on the ridgeline. It was a sustained 30mph though, and per my thermometer temperatures were between 7 and 10, making windchill on average between -12 and -19. I love getting into the thick of bad weather in the wilderness :)
For giggles, here's what I looked like up close. It was a long day, and between the drive and reaching the location by snowshoe, it took about 8 hours of travel. A great trip regardless, and even if this doesn't score all that well, I'm pleased with the result. If you've read this far, thank you.
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glad this challenge came up again gave me a chance to find this nugget. here's the thing, i was browsing through all the entries and this one grabbed me before i saw it was yours...i really like this, and i'm handing it only about the 15th favorite i ever have...awesome shot.
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