With the photos of the Passmusem finished, we moved along to the Transit building. The dense glowing fog was still present, shrouding the building in that same fire-like mist. The weather helped me portray the Transit as a welcoming shelter for travelers. With the fog omitting much of the surrounding landscape, the photographs feel close and intimate. Our attention rests on the form of the building.

My photographs of the Transit portion of the Timmelsjoch Experience feel quiet and warm. The monochromatic color palette support this mood. The viewers’ eyes are not distracted by extraneous information, but can rest on the line and form of this structure. Context like the rocky outcroppings and silvers of the road are still present, without being overpowering.

The Granat structure is a bit different from the rest of the buildings in the Timmelsjoch Experience. It consists of two volumes, both modeled after Garnets. The exhibition room appears as a natural, unpolished geological garnet. The other volume appears more abstract. It is a polished garnet jewel that suspends visitors over a view of the Passier Valley and the Moos. It was my goal to showcase the way the garnet suspends over the valley while still connecting visitors to the earth.

At the beginning of this journey, I mentioned that we were met by much rain on our first day photographing the Timmelsjoch Experince. We harnessed the bad weather to offset the moody sky from the Steg sculpture. The Steg sits outside the Timmelsjoch Crosspoint which houses the Top Mountain Motorcycle Museum. The Steg seems to playfully imitate the shape of the Crosspoint, jutting out over the landscape. The Steg allows visitors to overlook the Ötztal mountains. I was thrilled to be able to showcase this station and its relation to the beautiful peaks and valleys beyond.

As you continue to travel the Timmelsjochstrasse, journeying through the mist, you arrive at a peculiar sculpture. The Schmuggler is a cubeoid structure that you can enter through a man-shaped cutout. Inside the structure, you learn about the dangers that smugglers faces while transporting contraband through the dangerous alpine landscape. My goal with these images was to portray the cube itself in the harsh landscape. The sheer rocky mountainside shrouded in heavy fog helped contribute to this idea.

The Fernrohr station also photographed wonderfully amid the bad weather. The “telescope” offers sweeping views of galciers, valleys, and breathtaking mountains. I loved being able to document this structure with pleant of context, showing off the two volumes perched on a crest of the mountainside. Having the clouded sky behind the structure created emphasis and draws our attention to the shape of the sculpture.

Once inside the telescopic structure, your attention is on only one thing: the view. Allowing the structure itself to fall dark in these photographs frames the panoramic view of the Texel Group Nature Park and Passeier Valley. This reductive approach to architecture photography helps express exactly what the purpose and intention of the structure is for. We are aware of the structure without being overwhelmed by it. The photographs allow us to experience being at Fernrohr without actually having to be present.

Photographing all six stations of the Timmelsjoch Experience was an adventure like no other. At the mercy of the weather, my assistant and I traveled the Timmelsjochstrasse using our time efficiently and photographing each sculpture in the way that would represent it best. We slept out in the freezing cold, spent long days and nights climbing the craggy cliffside, and hauled around heavy camera gear to make this project possible.At the end of the journey we walked away with an unforgettable experience among the finest alpine architecture, and with a series of photographs I love dearly.