vacilandoelmundo:

Max Rive’s mountain photography series reminds me of a modern day version of Wanderer above the Sea of Fog (composed in 1818 by the German Romantic artist Caspar David Friedrich – see it here). 

According to the painting’s Wikipedia page, Historian John Lewis Gaddis “felt that the impression the wanderer’s position atop the precipice and before the twisted outlook leaves ‘is contradictory, suggesting at once mastery over a landscape and the insignificance of the individual within it.’”