“I went to Switzerland to visit Mario, a friend of mine. I don’t know where we went or what it was called; I could probably find it on a map by retracing our steps, but we just started driving toward the mountains. As we were getting closer, I became interested in going as far as we could. There’s a gondola that takes people up into the mountains, but it was closing for the day when we got there, meaning that we found ourselves alone in this beautiful mountain opening.

We decided to climb even farther up on the side of the mountain, which is where this picture was taken. We spotted the rock that appears in the photo from the valley—I’m unsure how far it was but it must’ve taken us 45 minutes to walk up there. It was cloudy and I wanted to capture the foggy light going through. We we...