Georgia

High ridges, empty valleys and old stone define this collection from the Georgian Caucasus. Shkhara’s great wall of snow and ice glows at sunset, and a lone Svan tower stands beneath it under a magenta sky. In the Truso Valley, a clear river winds over gravel, a mineral spring stains a turquoise pool orange and the ruins of Zakagori Fortress crown a golden hill under storm clouds, and an abandoned house waits at the foot of autumn slopes. Higher up, a mountain hut sits below Mount Kazbek and the striated ice of the Gergeti Glacier leads toward its rocky summit.

Warm evening light turns the rock faces of Shkhara’s vast snow-and-ice wall orange above shadowed green ridges, with pink cloud drifting at the right. — Alpenglow on Shkhara

A lone medieval Svan defensive tower stands on a dark grassy hill below the snow-covered massif of Shkhara, glowing under a vivid pink and magenta sky. — A Svan Tower Below Shkhara

An abandoned stone house with a tin roof stands at the foot of steep autumn slopes in yellow and green in the Truso Valley, beneath a cloudy sky. — The Last House in the Truso Valley

A clear, braided river winds over a wide gravel bed toward a small settlement with a stone tower beneath golden autumn slopes and distant rocky peaks. — River Through the Truso Valley

The stone ruins of Zakagori Fortress crown a golden grassy hill beneath dark storm clouds, with a Georgian flag on a pole at the lower left. — Zakagori Fortress Under Storm Clouds

Jagged rock in the foreground leads to a turquoise mineral pool fed by an orange-stained spring stream, below golden autumn meadows and steep mountains. — Mineral Pool in the Truso Valley

A small mountain hut stands on a sunlit golden ridge below the snow-capped summit of Mount Kazbek and the Gergeti Glacier, under dramatic clouds. — Hut Below Kazbek

The dark, striated ice of the Gergeti Glacier fills the foreground beneath the rocky, cloud-capped flanks of Mount Kazbek. — On the Gergeti Glacier