One more view of the landscape around Bellecombe on the plateau of Haut Jura Natural Park.
Beginning of autumn, deciduous trees start to change their colors while coniferous stay green ...
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Showing posts with label mountains. Show all posts
Thursday 22 September 2011
Meadows and mountain forest in Haut Jura Natural Park
One more view of the landscape around Bellecombe on the plateau of Haut Jura Natural Park.
Beginning of autumn, deciduous trees start to change their colors while coniferous stay green ...
Thursday 25 August 2011
Dusk on Bonlieu lake in Jura mountains
I july when i went to the Jura mountains to make some images of Hérisson waterfalls i slept in my van above this lake, just near the place where this photo was done. It was just a snapshot before going to bed.
Friday 5 August 2011
Weekly commented photo # 31 - Dusk light on the Alpine meadow
That's another scheduled post because i'm not at work this week. No office work, no blogging and a very few photography. I hope to retrieve a better posting rate here during next week.
As you can devine, this image is from the same serie that the previous one of my Weekly commented photos. It was done a little later and i was still around the Chalet du Sac on Grand Crêt d'Eau mountain.
Usually, chalets are built with wood logs but the word also designates these little houses used by sheperds spending summer with their flocks in the mountains.
This one is not still used by sheperds but i've read that anyone hiking there can stop here and spend the night in a safe place.
That's not difficult to devine that i will probably try that in a short time, just to be sure not to miss the first lights of the day.
The photo is a HDR one done from 5 exposures and processed with SilkyPix and Photomatix.
Why did i use HDR photography here ?
Just because that the scene dynamic range was really too high to give a nice and good result even with a very strong GND filtration.
Friday 29 July 2011
Weekly commented photo # 30 - Alpine meadow on Grand Cret d'Eau mountain
That's a really recent image taken just a few hours ago.
After my first visit a few weeks ago, i returned this evening to the Grand Crêt d'Eau mountain. I wanted to explore a little more and eventually make photos of Leman lake and Jura mountains in dusk light.
As i left home under a beautiful blue sky, i was surprised to find such a cloudy and windy weather on the mountain. The elevation here is only 1380m but beleive me, i was happy to have a polar vest to wear over my t-shirt.
Surprised by the clouds and seduced by the light i spent the last hours of the day here, trying different compositions and lights.
After a short time, all the cows probably intrigued gave me a little visit to see who was gesticulating in the field with a big black tripod. They looked at me during a few minutes and as i'm definitely not an interesting people they returned to their place where grass was probably better.
Friday 15 July 2011
Weekly commented photo # 28 - First visit to Grand Cret d'Eau mountain
This is a scheduled post. While you read it i'm enjoying a very few days of holidays, probably around the lakes of Jura mountains.
The Grand Crêt d'Eau mountain overhangs the end of Valserine valley on the left side of the river. It's also the last (or first) summit of Jura mountains range. It also overhangs the Rhône river and it's really close to the Vuache mountain.
Visiting Grand Crêt d'Eau was a project i had for a long time. Even if summer is not (in my mind) the best season for landscape photography i decided to go there at dawn on monday. To prepare this first exploration i did a little of internet scouting looking for photos of the mountain and words about hiking there.
I didn't found any very beautiful image but some texts describing some nice walks.
So, on monday i walk up at 4 am, took my car and drove to Grand Crêt d'Eau.
Arrived at the end of the road, i left the car and follow my instinct to decide which path to take.
After a relatively short anf beautiful walk between forests and fields i arrived with the first real lights of the day on that place just before the Col du Sac.
I would have liked to look for a better point of view but i knew the light would stay like this just a very short time. So i stopped on the path took this image plus a couple of other similar ones and continued my walk.
A very short time after i arrived at the Col du Sac. The place is really beautiful and inviting but the light was ever too strong to give some very interesting images.
I pursued my explorations during about one hour in the mountain meadows trying to find nice point of views and to devine what would be the best time to come back for landscape photography.
As usual for first explorations i didn't made a huge harvest of interesting images but at least i came back with a few decent ones and more important with many ideas and a very large area to explore.
For people interested in technical things, this photo was done using a 0.9 (3 stops) soft GND filter and the raw file needed just a very few adjustments (done with Silkypix) to produce the final image.
Wednesday 15 June 2011
French countryside in Valserine valley
An image done this morning in the beautiful rural landscape of the Valserine valley. Just near Chezery Forens in Haut Jura Natural Park
Wednesday 8 June 2011
Landscape around Serre Ponçon lake
I can't explain why but this image done in 2005 in the Hautes Alpes mountains is one of my favourite landscape photo and i realized 2 days ago that it was not on this blog :)
Monday 6 June 2011
Dusk light on Serre Ponçon lake
An image from the archives ...
Serre Ponçon dam was built from 1955 to 1961 on the Durance river.
The lake is the third biggest artificial lake in Europe.
It's a famous place for tourism with the mountains all around and also for sailing and windsurfing because of special winds blowing here.
I spent two days here for work in 2005. This photo is one of the first i did arriving on the place and the morning after i did another one which is still one of my favourite landscape and which doesn't seem to be one this blog :)
Wednesday 11 May 2011
Dusk colors on Annecy lake - long exposure with Hoya ND 400
I recently found some new clients around Annecy.
On friday i had a nice meeting with one of them for prints delivery and after that i spent the end of afternoon around the lake and at the Imperial beach.
I walked a lot but just did a few images. This one was done around 8 pm and i used my Hoya NB 400 for the long exposure plus a 5 stop soft GND filter for the balance between sky and foreground.
Monday 28 March 2011
Rural landscape in the mist on Vuache mountain - Another version
You can see here another version of this scene.
While this first one was done in a very deep mist and without any filter, the one posted today was done with a little more sun and the difference of lightness between the sky and ground was compensated by a soft gnd filter, giving different atmospheres in these two images.
Friday 25 March 2011
Weekly commented photo #12 - Sunset light on the Massif des Bauges
On monday i had an appointment with a client in the Massif des Bauges area. After my first and unsuccessful attempt a few weeks ago (see here) i was decided to give this place another try.
I was expecting my shooting job to finish early and to have time for personnal landscapes after, just at the better light.
As things don't always go as expected, the job ended just before the end of afternoon and i had to spend a little time with the client to speak and have a drink. BTW it was a nice piece of time but when it ended it was too late to drive to the mountains where i wanted to go and so i took the shortest road to my home.
After less than half an hour on the mountain road i arrived to a little pass where i discovered this sunset view.
I stopped the car along the road, unpacked my gear and made this image.
I had to use a 1.2 (5 stops) soft gnd filter to keep the sky correct without darkening too much the shadows.
It was ok for the exposure but the sun was not completely set and when processing the file i discovered a flare mark that i couldn't remove completely so that's just another image which will never be printed.
Thursday 24 March 2011
Coniferous trees in mountain forest
An image from my day at Col de la Forclaz in january.
I will be offline from tomorrow for about one week but i've prepared some scheduled posts to be published automatically during this time.
Wednesday 23 March 2011
Tuesday 15 March 2011
First outing in the Massif des Bauges, not a success
Some days ago i went for a first outing in the Massif des Bauges natural park.
It was not a good photographic day : The light was dull, i drove a lot,i was tired, i walked, i waited but could'nt get a better image than this one.
Monday 7 March 2011
End of the day on Vuache mountain
That's an image frome exactly one month ago.
It was done the same day than this one but a few time later really just before dusk. I ended the day walking down the forest path by night :)
Tuesday 22 February 2011
Monday 21 February 2011
Rural landscape in the mist on Vuache mountain
I love this mountain because i can climb to the top while leaving my car at home.
Just perfect when you need a breath of fresh air after some hours on phone with clients.
I went there on friday afternoon. Our house was in the mist and i guessed that the top of the mountain would be sunny ...
After about one hour walk i was still in the mist (and did this image) but a few moment later and a very few meters higher i had a very short time of sun with a beautiful view on a nice sea of mist and clouds bathing the mountain forest.
Tuesday 8 February 2011
When the winter looks like spring
Click on the image to get a larger size :)
Yesterday afternoon i went to the Vuache mountain. It's elevation is about 1000 meters and at the end of november it was looking like that.
On the upper left corner of the image there is the Tournette mountain (more than 2300m high). I've ever seen it with more snow in july ...
For being honnest, the amazing weather we have for about one week is really pleasant and hiking the mountains wearing just a T shirt is not so bad. Most of all i had a very beautiful light at sunset time :)
Monday 7 February 2011
Rural landscape in the mountains
About ten days ago i spent an afternoon at the Col de la Forclaz above Annecy lake. It'a a very well known spot from french paragliders and it offers a stunning high view on the lake.
Unfortunatly the day was cloudy and light really dull so i didn't made the images of the lake i expected.
I went to the forest, did a few tree photos and waited for dusk when i could do this image and another very similar but with a slightly different composition.
None of these images are outstanding but i love how they represent these rough places.
BTW you can notice that we didn't had too much snow for a long time.
Tuesday 18 January 2011
Oak trees in the snow on the Vuache mountain
Another one from our first snow fall in november.
The tree on the right is the one shown here.
Last thing : On friday, my third Weekly Commented Photo will be about a very recent image i really love.
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