Balancing scales swiss alps

Description

It was 2018 when I found myself deep in the Swiss Alps, chasing silence and scale. Not the kind of scale measured in altitude or distance, but in presence. The kind that makes you feel small — and grounded.

I was hiking a ridge in Zermatt, where the light breaks clean across the face of the peaks. Snow still dusted the distant crests, but down where I stood, the grass was dry and the wind still. That’s when I saw them.

Seventeen stones. Upright. Balanced. Not stacked for height, but poised against each other like a pair of ancient scales. No rope. No base. Just gravity and time holding them in tension. It looked fragile, impossible. Intentional.

I adjusted my 50mm and dropped to ground level. Through the lens, the rocks framed the Alps perfectly, jagged white giants and puffy clouds in the background, the foreground simple and absolute. No distractions. No movement. Just balance.

This wasn’t just a photo of rocks in front of mountains. It was a photo of contrast: stillness against grandeur, weight against air, human perception against natural order.

I don’t know who placed those stones, or how long they stood before or after I arrived. But for that brief moment, between shutter clicks and alpine wind, they were perfect. Balanced. Present.

Now available in limited edition print a frozen breath from the heights of Switzerland.
For those who value stillness, weight, and the invisible force that holds it all in place.