Luke Robinson
I’m primarily a panorama photographer who focuses on summary, representational, and the gray space in-between. My upbringing was on the British shoreline in Sussex and I moved to Basel Switzerland in my early 20s. It’s from right here the place I now spend as a lot of my time as attainable exploring and capturing the gorgeous nature round Europe.
It’s 5 o’clock within the morning. Exterior my prepare window, I can see illuminated, trendy cities passing by. Slowly, the alps start to seem. The panorama right here is idyllic. Outdated picket barns in flowery meadows which roll as much as lovely snowy peaks that are flippantly brushed with the morning gentle, it may very well be the quilt of a chocolate field.
Out of the blue I hit a tunnel, and every little thing modifications. The bottom is roofed in shingle and rocks, olive timber and grapevines sit on the backside of sheer precipices and towering peaks. What sits excessive above the tunnel separates not simply the 2 languages and cultures but additionally the geography, vegetation, climate, and the North and South of Europe. Up right here is the place I’m heading.
Apart from the sheep farmers and hiker huts, the Greina go is likely one of the locations the place nature nonetheless has a powerful foothold in Switzerland. This may be troublesome for farmers up there. I met one girl who had a small hut on prime of the ridge. She advised me how the eagles and the not too long ago launched pack of wolves typically take her lambs, she was exploring the thought of getting a llama sooner or later to guard them. The weather can be unpredictable and fierce.
The always altering local weather has created a panorama that made me nostalgic for the mountainous areas of the UK. At sure factors within the go, you’d come throughout weathered mars-like rocky buildings, boggy swampland and deep carved out gorges.
There’s a backwards and forwards between the Mediterranean and northern European climates alongside the go. On the 2 events, I went up there to get these photographs, there have been storms on one facet and 30c warmth and blue sky on the opposite. The storm clouds on the northern facet repeatedly broke off from the majority as they went over the ridges operating alongside the go, they then rolled up the valley, bringing intense wind, rain and snow.
The always altering local weather has created a panorama that made me nostalgic for the mountainous areas of the UK. At sure factors within the go, you’d come throughout weathered mars-like rocky buildings, boggy swampland and deep carved out gorges. It is lovely to {photograph}, you would simply spend just a few days in simply one of many valleys. Additionally it is very quiet. One thing that I very a lot admire in regards to the hikers and photographers that you simply meet up in these distant areas of the Alps is their mentality; the should be peaceable and respect nature is one thing which is kind of ingrained on this climbing tradition.
I stayed in two totally different climbing huts after I went there; they one way or the other, miraculously contemplating the situation, supply breakfast and dinner if you’re there on the proper time, which I by no means was.
There’s something within the odor of the situation and the delicate sounds of operating water and chirping groundhogs. Like a calmness which is sort of thick within the air.
On each journeys, I had the pleasure of starting my days below clear evening skies earlier than the clouds and fog got here in over the ridges because the solar lit up the valleys. As I made my approach to my capturing spots earlier than daybreak, the rocks round me glowed within the starlight.
There’s something within the odor of the situation and the delicate sounds of operating water and chirping groundhogs. Like a calmness which is sort of thick within the air. Often, this was damaged by a sudden storm that may creep unexpectedly across the valley, there was one thing very humbling within the unpredictable nature of it. Such an environment was lovely to {photograph} in, I plan to go to many extra occasions sooner or later.
