Documentary: A Sudden Alpine Lake Seen From a Mountain Pass Under Prayer Flags

Five-colored prayer flags spread like clouds in all directions from a tall pole as a tiny traveler faces dark blue lake water, the sky fading from pale blue to deep blue with stars. The closing shot with the most negative space in the set. Image 9 of Zhao Yifan's Documentary set.

An old woman spins a prayer wheel in her right hand and holds prayer beads in her left, dense five-colored prayer flags overhead casting colored light spots while grassland and snow mountains spread behind. Image 3 of Zhao Yifan's Documentary set.

A god's-eye view of thousands of torches winding into a river of fire along a black ridge, with darkness covering seventy percent of the frame and an old man shielding a flame and a child looking up in the foreground. Tucks micro stories into a macro scene. Image 11 of Zhao Yifan's set.