Fog around Barbennaz

Fog around Barbennaz

 

Barbennaz canyon in the fog by a cold winter morning.

Barbennaz waterfall, the vertical view

Barbennaz waterfall

Barbennaz waterfall, the wide view

Barbennaz waterfall

 

One more view of this place where whe can see the entire waterfall.

Barbennaz waterfall - detail of the lower part

Barbennaz waterfall - detail of the lower part

Barbennaz waterfall

Barbennaz waterfall

 

After a long time without visiting this lovely place under my home, i returned there a few days ago.

Arrived at the end of afternoon, i waited for the sun to be low enough but after some tries, the contrast was still a little high to give some files of a very good quality with a single exposure.
So, i went for HDR and the image above results of two photos blended and tonemapped with Picturenaut.

Ice at Barbennaz waterfall

Ice at Barbennaz waterfall

Exceptionally, i don't provide a larger view for this image. Because of the vertical crop it wouldn't fit many screens.

End of autumn at Barbennaz waterfall

End of autumn at Barbennaz waterfall

Just the vertical version of the image posted yesterday.

Weekly commented photo # 50 - End of autumn at Barbennaz waterfall

Last year we had some huge snow falls and big colds at the end of november but as i said in a recent post, this year we spend the end of autumn under a countinous rain.

Fortunately we had two days of nice weather during the last week end.
Nice weather but no stunning conditions for serious landscape photography. No leaves on the trees, deep mud in the fields and forests and no beautiful white snow on the surrounding mountains.
So i decided to take once more the way to Fornant river running in the forest under my home.

After all that rain the water was running strongly. I spent a short time walking the muddy path along the river just looking at the stream. From the top of a little rock i devined a kind of passage going through dead trees and drift woods to a little canyon i had never explored before. So i left the path and walked to the canyon entrance where i had to go in the water to make 2 or 3 images possibly interesting.

After that refreshing stop, i went back to the path and walked to its end : at Barbennaz waterfall.

I first went just near the waterfall but was imedaitely soaked by the water spray. So i moved back to the place you can see on the image where i spent about half an hour before darkness, trying different compositions and different shutter speeds.

The photo posted here was the last i did there. For people interested in technical details, exposure time was around 3 seconds and i used a 2 stops soft GND filter to protect the upper part of the waterfall from over exposure. I also did the same image image without any filter but i really prefer this one. Last try : i took five bracketed exposure for a future HDR processing but they are still waiting.

Mossy rocks at Barbennaz waterfall

Mossy rocks at Barbennaz waterfall

Barbennaz waterfall, another view

Barbennaz waterfall

I think it's (until now) my favorite image of my favorite neighbour :)

Note :
I've posted today an article on my french website about how to photograph waterfalls.

Barbennaz waterfall and 5 sites to discover

Barbennaz waterfall
A closer view of Barbennaz waterfall (first one posted here).
It's an image from august. I arrived there in the late afternoon but had to wait a long time before the light was soft enough, at least it gave me some time to explore the place and find interesting points of view.

The 5 sites to discover :

• Scott Linstead
  Scott Linstead is a nature and wildlife photographer, working with color and black and white.

• Daniel H Bailey
  Adventure and outddor photographer based in Alaska.

• Ben Attenbach
  Some very wonderful nature and landscape photography. I can't say more.

• Douglas J Eng
  Beautiful and various images from different styles.

• Daniel Shea
  Contemporary photographer from Chicago.

Barbennaz waterfall and some news from the Alps

Barbennaz waterfall

So on july 24 after some weeks spent packaging our stuff, we left Provence to come and live in the french Alps.
A few days later i recovered a decent DSL connection but just used it a little bit. Too many hard word in our new but very old house and no really time to spend processing images i've started to make while exploring the landscape all around.