Olivier Steiner Photography

@osteinerphoto
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Photographer & UIMLA mountain leader | 
Exploring natural light + remote trails + remote places & capturing the wild.

Available for guiding & photo bivouacs 
Fine art prints & licensing available. 

📍Verbier, Valais, Switzerland

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End of the day over Lima. Time to run down the hills and let the vast Pacific Ocean disappear into the dark. Until tomorrow.

#LaCruz #Lima #Peru #Cityscape #SunsetPhotography #GoldenHour #TravelPhotography #LandscapePhotography #SouthAmerica #UrbanLandscape #VisualStorytelling #HilltopView #AtmosphericLight

The second‑biggest desert city in the world, Lima sits on the Pacific coast, snug between the ocean and the Andes.
To the east, the mountains rise abruptly, often offering stunning sunsets to those adventurous enough to climb those dusty hills.

#BeforeTheAndes #Lima #Peru #Cityscape #SunsetPhotography #GoldenHour #TravelPhotography #LandscapePhotography #SouthAmerica #UrbanLandscape
#VisualStorytelling #MountainView #DesertCity #AtmosphericLight

Above Lima.
On the left, the wall of shame separates the posh suburb from the slum.
This cross offers the curious wanderer an incredible sunset and a stunning view over the city’s contrasts and inequalities.

#AboveLima #Lima #Peru #Cityscape #UrbanContrast #Inequality #SunsetPhotography #GoldenHour #TravelPhotography #LandscapePhotography #SouthAmerica #VisualStorytelling #UrbanLayers #PhotoEssay #AtmosphericLight

End of the day over Lima. Warm sunlight slowly fades and turns this big city into a cyberpunk maze of light, revealing the neblina, those thick clouds trapped between ocean and land.

#Lima #Peru #Sunset #Cityscape #Neblina #UrbanLandscape #PhotographyOnMastodon #cyberpunk

Malecón de Lima. Just a thin line between the vast Pacific Ocean and Peru’s largest city. At night, both sides reveal their own contrasts and rhythms: calm and darkness over the water, vivid and restless on the land.

#NightPhotography #Lima #Peru #Cityscape #CoastalLandscape #LongExposure #PhotographyOnMastodon

Above Lima, on the first hills before the real Andes, the sun slowly dives into the Pacific Ocean. The city below remains vivid, its lights awakening as the day is far from over for most.

#landscapephotography
#Lima
#Peru
#Cityscape
#Twilight
#photographyonmastodon

Iconic pier of the Malecón de Miraflores, La Rosa Náutica brings together so many layers of Lima’s life: fishermen, 24/7 surfers, people strolling slowly, and joggers tracing the coastline. A place where the gigantic city meets the Pacific Ocean.

#BlackAndWhite #Lima #Peru #RosaNautica #CoastalLandscape #Surfers #PhotographyOnMastodon

Lima Centro Histórico. So many wonderful buildings offering both a deep cultural and historical experience, and incredible views of the surrounding hills from the tops of old churches. This modern daily life unfolding in the middle of colonial architecture creates a fascinating contrast.

#StreetPhotography
#BlackAndWhite
#Lima
#Peru
#CentroHistorico
#UrbanLandscape
#PhotographyOnMastodon

Organized Chaos

The beautiful malecón in Lima is part of this incredible and very vivid coastal city. Seagulls line up neatly, staring at the Pacific Ocean, while the rest of the city unfolds in an aesthetic, contrasted, and fascinating chaos of colors, traffic, lovely markets, desert dust, history, and culture. You either love it or hate it.

#StreetPhotography #blackandwhite #Lima #Peru #UrbanLandscape #CoastalLife #PhotographyOnMastodon

That day felt unusual — I was moving between two heavy layers of clouds.
The soft, filtered light gave the place a mysterious mood, transforming those modest mountains into something from a child’s fantasy tale.

#NatureOnMastodon
#AlpinePhotography
#SkiTouring
#WinterLandscape
#BackcountrySkiing
#photographyonmastodon
#foggyfriday