Crisp layers of snow covered everything; only the very tops of the hills, dark, rounded and steep, were left exposed.
At the very tops of the headpiece sits a 73-carat rough diamond contained within a cross pattée that allows natural light to shine through.
With global temperatures rising, these giants are retreating up the mountains and are now on the very tops, with nowhere to go.
Each picture in the series, called "Sentry," was a head-on view of the huge front desk in another white-cube gallery; the receptionists are invisible save the very tops of their heads.
They also, as vibrant social media suggest, expect more from their leaders, for instance in confronting rampant corruption that runs to the very tops of the parties, as well as in standing up to China, the increasingly assertive northern neighbour.
And if you squint and look way, way up, you can see signs at the very tops of some of those hills that, in effect, say the open air is closed to water skiing.
"The Gartners of the world only look at the very tops of the echelons," Larkins says.
NCAR scientists can now collect data form the very tops of hurricanes and thunderstorms at a level of detail that wasn't possible before.
We flew over the skyscraper temples of the metropolis at El Mirador, covered in trees up to their very tops.
I was trying to make sense of what I was looking at, that sheeny murkiness where the street should be, and peeking through, only the very tops of trees.
