Planning & Tips

Snow in Austria is an altitude, not a season. Where the white is reliable in Kitzbühel, Zell am See, Seefeld and Schladming, and how to stay warm enough to look relaxed.

Sunrise or sunset in Austria is decided by geography, not taste: which way the shore faces, how high the ridge behind it stands, and when the last cable car goes down.

December Vienna has eight and a half hours of daylight and its best pictures happen in the forty minutes after the sun goes down. Where to be at that moment, and which hours are worth avoiding.

The mountain decides your outfit, not the other way round. Colours that hold against green and snow, layers that come off cleanly, shoes that get you to the frame, and how to wear Tracht without looking hired.

Austria gives you a different country every two months: snow and market lights, apricot blossom on the Danube, alpine meadows, then larch gold. Here is what each season actually offers a photoshoot.