The journeys / 02 December 2021 · Solo

AliBedni.

A view becomes a journey.

The next winter 11 photographs / One moving memory

December 2020 → December 2021

Once, a view.
Now, a place.

I first saw Ali Bedni Bugyal from the summit of Brahmatal. In December 2021, I went there on my own. A shorter trek, and the next winter in the same story.

Wooded paths. Snow in the shade. Meadows opening beneath a very big sky. Eleven photographs and a few seconds of moving memory.

Pink mountain light from the Brahmatal chapter

The previous winterBrahmatal / December 2020

01 / Under the trees

A smaller world,
before the open sky.

A trekker on a narrow forest path looking across sunlit trees towards a hillside striped with snow — Through the trees, towards the meadows I had once seen from Brahmatal.December 2021

A close photograph of a trekker in sunglasses with a black dog beside their shoulder, backlit by the sun — A small interruption to the walking, and exactly the right company.December 2021

Footprints across shaded snow leading towards dark trees with sunlight shining through their branches — Footprints in the snow, light through the branches. The simple work of walking.December 2021

Small green tents and a hut beside a snow-covered clearing, with sunlit trees casting long shadows — Snow around camp, trees at the edges. Enough of a place to settle into.December 2021

02 / Into the open

The shape
of winter.

A rounded meadow covered in rippled snow beneath a deep blue sky, with a narrow path at the left — A white ridge and all the space I came back for.

A wide white snow basin beneath golden mountain ridges and large grey and white clouds — A year earlier, these meadows had been a view from Brahmatal. Now I was walking through them.

Golden grassy ridges above a dark forest, with diagonal strips of white snow across the foreground — Snow where the shade held on, gold where it didn’t. Plenty of reason to walk slowly.

03 / A moving memory

Stay here.
For a moment.

A few seconds in the meadows.
The camera turns. The view keeps going.

Snow-covered meadows, golden grass and wooded ridges — A year after the view from Brahmatal, a few seconds standing in it.00:08 · Original sound inside

A little colour to keep

Winter,
in another colour.

Low golden sunlight above overlapping hills, with a few buildings on the darker foreground slope — There is a kind of light that makes it easy to leave the day alone.December 2021

Mountain peaks glowing gold between dark trees, with a snow-covered roof at the right edge — That last colour on the peaks. A good reason to stay outside a little longer.December 2021

04 / The collection

Eleven frames.
Another winter.

Open a photograph.
See the whole frame.

Brahmatal ↔ Ali Bedni Bugyal

Two winters.
One thread.

December 2020 / December 2021
A view from one journey. The beginning of another.

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AliBedni.

Once, a view.
Now, a place.

A smaller world,
before the open sky.

The shape
of winter.

Stay here.
For a moment.

Winter,
in another colour.

Eleven frames.
Another winter.

Two winters.
One thread.

The photographs

A little longer in the meadows

AliBedni.

Once, a view.Now, a place.

A smaller world,before the open sky.

The shapeof winter.

Stay here.For a moment.

Winter,in another colour.

Eleven frames.Another winter.

Two winters.One thread.

Once, a view.
Now, a place.

A smaller world,
before the open sky.

The shape
of winter.

Stay here.
For a moment.

Winter,
in another colour.

Eleven frames.
Another winter.

Two winters.
One thread.