Prague Snow Chimney Rooftops Countdown Timer

Of all the tilt-shift shots in this set, this is the one that goes furthest, the one where the illusion is total and you would swear you were looking down at a model under a glass case. It is just roofs. Snow-covered roofs, dozens of them, with their dormer windows and their red tiles showing through the white and their chimneys, so many chimneys, each one a little rectangle with a cap on top, casting a long shadow across the snow because the sun is low. There is a pale yellow building in the middle with walls that have gone almost white in the light, and a few dark windows, and a couple of television aerials. That is all. No landmarks, no river, no sky. And yet it is completely absorbing, because the repetition does something to your eye, makes you start counting, makes you notice the one roof that has no snow on it and wonder why. I shot it from a hill in the early morning after a heavy fall. Nobody had walked on those roofs yet. An hour later the snow would be tracked and grey and the magic would be gone.