Rachel Elder, First Snow (PLACES 2024)

The morning after a cool night of rain in autumn transformed the view from the shoreline of Lake Wakitipu, Queenstown NZ, into a view of the beginning of winter as the approaching season change takes hold and transforms the previous days view of brown, baron mountains into a dusting of snow upon the landscape.

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