Ice stalactites in the Fornant river

Ice stalactites in the Fornant river

For a few days, the weather is almost dry but very cold.
I went early this morning to the Fornant river with the idea of making images of ice formations around the water.
The water was still running but in many places such ice stalactites where hanging on the rocks or on tree roots. I caught some beautiful closeups in the first place where i stopped but i'll certainly return to explore a little more. If the weather stays cold of course. But i think i don't need to worry about that :)

Little cascades in the Fornant river

Little cascades in the Fornant river

I've always loved this kind of scenes with rivers and cascades running under the wood. Now i'm lucky enough to have one just under my house.

Yesterday i was at 6 am in Annecy to catch the first light over the lake surrounded by the autumn mountains covered by the first snow. You'll see the images before the end of this week :)

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.

Chaumont village and the Fornant river running under the woods

Chaumont village
Here are 2 recent shots from our new place : the village near which we live and the Fornant river just before the nice Barbennaz waterfall.

Note 1 : The panoramic view was done by stitching 20 images taken with a long lens. The job was done as usual with PTGui.

Note 2 : I'm still busy with building my new office and working in the house so you will have to wait a little more for the return of regular posting here.

The Fornant river running under the wood

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.