15th Annual Smithsonian Magazine Photo Contest Natural World
There’s always something behind

The uniqueness of Huangshan lies in the undulating landscape. With layers of mountains’ silhouette overlapping and intersecting with each other, its poetic outline of the spectacular pine trees on peculiarly-shaped granite peaks are playfully veiled and unveiled. The strategy of the photo is to make use of the overlapping to create an instability of spatial depth, like how a traditional Chinese landscape painting is drawn.

Photo Detail
Date Taken: 10.2017
Date Uploaded: 11.2017
Photo Location: Anhui Sheng, China, China
Camera: Canon EOS 7D Mark II
Copyright: © Jonathan So