This photograph was taken in January 2026 in Nové Jirny, after one of the first heavy snowfalls the area had seen in years. While everyone else was sledging and skiing, I was out with a Nikon 200–500mm lens — the heaviest and most rarely used lens in my bag — looking for something worth the effort.
I almost came home empty-handed. On the way back, I found a small clearing where the snow had settled into gentle mounds. I pushed my tripod into the snow, spent about two hours working through compositions, and waited.
The result is a close-up photograph that doesn’t look like one. The snow mounds read as hills, the shallow depth of field softens everything into a quiet, almost monochrome landscape, and a single tiny branch — just barely above the surface — anchors the whole frame. The longer you look, the harder it is to tell whether you’re looking at a hillside from a distance or a handful of snow from very close.
EXIF data of the photograph
- Camera Model: NIKON Z 7
- Lens model: Nikon 200-500 mm f/5.6
- Date taken: 10. 1. 2026
- Exposure time: 1/25s
- F-Number: f/9.0
- ISO speed ratings: 250
- Focal length: 390mm
- Size of the photo: 8256 px x 5504 px
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