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Photography by Lu Heng

5The Scale of Time

The Mountain Stays, Weather Passes

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Snowy mountains in the distance, with changing light and cloud. A peak is clear in one frame and partly hidden in another. Similar views let the weather, rather than a new subject, carry the change.

  1. A white mountain peak rises above dark conifers against clear blue sky.
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    Snow above the forest

  2. A snowy mountain ridge catches warm light beneath a pale sky.
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    Snow in warm light

  1. Dark mountain silhouettes lie beneath a sky fading from pale to deep blue.
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    Ridges after the light

  2. Sunrise over snowy slopes and pines; The sun breaks above a snowy ridge, with dark pines descending into the valley.
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    Sunrise over snowy slopes and pines

  1. A line of dark peaks rises above a thick blanket of white cloud.
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    Peaks above the clouds

  2. A mountain peak above cloud; A dark mountain ridge rises through a field of low white cloud beneath blue sky.
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    A mountain peak above cloud

  1. A mountain peak surrounded by cloud; A cloud-wrapped mountain peak catches the last blue light above a dark horizon.
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    A mountain peak surrounded by cloud

  2. In a vertical frame, dark foreground peaks give way to ridges fading into blue haze.
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    Layers in blue haze

  1. In a vertical frame, successive mountain ridges fade into pale haze.
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    Ridges fading away

  2. A mountain summit emerges through blue haze beneath a darkening blue sky.
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    A summit in the haze

Lu Heng on adapting or freezing