Siddhesh Sali
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Kashmir and Himachal

Dal Lake, deodar forest and the snow above Gulmarg, across two trips a year apart.

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Shikara boats on flat water in front of lakeside houses, wooded hills rising behind.
01View photograph 1: Shikara boats on flat water in front of lakeside houses, wooded hills rising behind.
A blue barge on a lake throwing a tall jet of water, bare-branched trees along the far shore.
02View photograph 2: A blue barge on a lake throwing a tall jet of water, bare-branched trees along the far shore.
An empty gondola cable car crossing a snowfield, mountains flattened into white behind it.
0353mm · 1/250 · f/10 · ISO 100View photograph 3: An empty gondola cable car crossing a snowfield, mountains flattened into white behind it.
A field of yellow mustard flowers running to a line of poplars, with a bare mountain beyond.
04View photograph 4: A field of yellow mustard flowers running to a line of poplars, with a bare mountain beyond.
Tall conifers in the foreground with a snow-covered peak showing through the gap between them.
05View photograph 5: Tall conifers in the foreground with a snow-covered peak showing through the gap between them.
A dry riverbed of rounded grey stones leading towards a snowfield and a wooded ridge.
06View photograph 6: A dry riverbed of rounded grey stones leading towards a snowfield and a wooded ridge.
A thin waterfall dropping down a rock face streaked with ochre, trees growing from the ledges.
07View photograph 7: A thin waterfall dropping down a rock face streaked with ochre, trees growing from the ledges.
A wide forested valley receding into layers of blue haze under a flat overcast sky.
08View photograph 8: A wide forested valley receding into layers of blue haze under a flat overcast sky.
Looking straight up the trunks of bare conifers converging towards a pale winter sky.
09View photograph 9: Looking straight up the trunks of bare conifers converging towards a pale winter sky.
A three-storey timber and brick house standing empty, its windows burnt out, grass to the door.
1044mm · 1/125 · f/8 · ISO 400View photograph 10: A three-storey timber and brick house standing empty, its windows burnt out, grass to the door.
A hand reaching into the frame to hold a single white and pink tulip growing in rough grass.
11View photograph 11: A hand reaching into the frame to hold a single white and pink tulip growing in rough grass.
A rhesus macaque sitting on a railing with an infant clinging to its chest.
12300mm · 1/125 · f/6.3 · ISO 1000View photograph 12: A rhesus macaque sitting on a railing with an infant clinging to its chest.
A grey langur sitting upright on a stone wall, tail hanging down, looking away from the camera.
13View photograph 13: A grey langur sitting upright on a stone wall, tail hanging down, looking away from the camera.

Two trips, a year apart — March 2016 and the spring of 2017.

The mountain frames are all about subtraction: snow takes the tonal range away and leaves you working with shape.

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