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Rear View Mirror

Lake Tahoe, California - 2024
Lake Tahoe, California

I am a student of the Alfred Hitchcock brand of storytelling and there may be something rather Hitchcockian about this narrative. The beautiful girl, driving an equally beautiful car, through the most extreme of winter passes, with a wolf perched high above analysing the situation.All the assets in play seem to complement each other, but only one party is perhaps alive to all the facts - the wolf.

Tall snow berms like the ones in the photograph are not easy to find these days and our research led us to Lake Tahoe in late April. The Sierra Nevada Mountain range still gets hefty 3-foot snowfalls in March; perhaps as much as any ski area in the world and this is where we focused our efforts.

Meanwhile, the 1953 250MM Ferrari, is a precious car and we needed to be very sure there was easy access to this location. So I guess we were being greedy as we wanted deep accumulations of snow, along with fresh snow on a newly ploughed road and then, somehow or other, the means to get the Ferrari in position on the bend in the road. We have little appetite for doing banal things that come easy.

When we arrived, the height of the berms offered an opportunity to use the black wolf we sometimes bring on set. It was not a preconceived idea and we remind ourselves that it is good occasionally simply to adapt to circumstance as you find them.

As always, we thank Brooks Nader for being such a laugh to work with on set - as well as being on point in her role playing.

Behind the scenes

As always, we thank Brooks Nader for being such a laugh to work with on set - as well as being on point in her role playing.

David Yarrow
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