This photograph is part of the High Tauern. The Zone Studies series, whose title refers to the Zone System developed by Ansel Adams - understood by Ziggy Kańczukowski not as a set of technical instructions, but as a disciplined way of thinking about photography. Although experienced in advanced analog processes and long established as a power user of digital tools, the artist postponed a direct confrontation with this method, treating it as a demanding encounter with the tradition that shaped his understanding of photographic craft, responsibility, and visual ethics. The series was realised within the High Tauern National Park, a space long known and repeatedly photographed. This particular work was made at Dorfersee, in the Dorfertal valley at the foot of the Großglockner. Rather than reinterpreting tradition, the work records a moment of readiness - a deliberate entry into dialogue with a method that allows neither shortcuts nor formal compromise.

Like all works in the series, this photograph exists exclusively in a single 8×10 inch format, historically associated with large-format photography and a slowed, disciplined approach to the image. It is produced on acid-free, 100% cellulose paper selected for long-term archival stability. Printing and framing are executed by WhiteWall in Berlin. The work is presented as a finished object, set in a black-painted oak frame with a 2 cm profile, combined with a 5 cm white passe-partout, and protected with museum glass that minimises reflections and provides UV protection. Format, material, and presentation are treated as fixed parameters, reinforcing the photograph as a resolved physical object rather than an image subject to variable reproduction or scaling.