MOUNTAINS FROM MY WINDOW

Growing up in a town where the mountains merge together with the city into a unique skyline, is normal for me to have a ton of photos about it.

But was my life experience in the french side of the Alps for 5 months that really brought to life some of my favorite landscape photos I’ve ever taken, despite I don’t define myself as a landscape photographer.

I was carrying around my 300mm zoom lens a lot during those months spent in France.

There is this common belief in the photographers community, that a wide angle is the go-to lens for landscapes photo. It’s just a personal prospective but in my mountain’s shot I always looking for the compression effect that only a huge focal range can give back. Those complex of rocks apparently far away coming so close, enhancing the majesty of their size and adding a big amount of drama to the final result.

Mountains are made for heroes.

I always had this opinion that the mountains are not for everyone, not even if now days it seams that everybody can go there and climb whatever wall they seen, is the respect to those majestic complex of rocks that seams missing.

I have the luck to know and saw in action those so called “heroes”. People that never misplaced their respect to the mountains and, on the contrary, become part of the environment itself every time they walk into the forests, hike, climb or fly over the peaks.

MOUNTAINS

CHASING

LAYER AFTER LAYER

The mountains taught me to shot in vertical.

I confess it seams strange, but before living the mountain life, my photographic vision was quite limited to the horizontal view in most of the cases, with very rare exceptions. By looking at those landscapes day by day, I understood my vision was wrong and that I couldn’t represent what really I wanted by keep shooting in horizontal; mountains were elevating vertically and so vertically should have been my photos too.