Showing posts with label wcp. Show all posts
Showing posts with label wcp. Show all posts

Friday 12 August 2011

Weekly commented photo # 32 - Breaking waves on the Mediterranean coast

Breaking waves on the Presqu'île de Giens - Provence
Breaking waves on the Presqu'île de Giens - Provence


No, i'm not back in Provence and this image was done a little more than 2 years ago.
It was a very windy day under dull light on the Prequ'île de Giens and i remember to have walk more than making images.

I choose this one for my Weekly commented photo exercise because i found it to be a good example of the difference between shooting for print and shooting for stock.

Most of my print sales come from images with impressive light and vivid colors (like this one) while most of my licensed photos have a more common looking. Please, note that's not an absolute rule.

Some days i shoot just for prints and some days just for stock but most often i tend to share my time between exploration, making photos for my stock when the light is OK and making images for art prints when the light is at its best.
I don't know if it's the best way to oragnize a photographic day but it works for me for many years.

I've never sold a print of the image posted above but it was licensed at least 3 times since it was done. So i really don't regret my day walking in the wind and flying sand.

In conclusion i invite you to read a very good article from Guy Tal about waiting the light.

Friday 5 August 2011

Weekly commented photo # 31 - Dusk light on the Alpine meadow

Dusk light on Grand Cret d'Eau mountain
Dusk light on Grand Crêt d'Eau mountain


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

Alpine meadow on Grand Crêt d'Eau mountain
Alpine meadow on Grand Crêt 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 22 July 2011

Weekly commented photo # 29 - Saut Girard in Herisson waterfalls

Saut Girard in Hérisson waterfalls
Saut Girard in Hérisson waterfalls



Hérisson river runs in Jura mountains and offers one of the most famous range of waterfalls in France.

If you look for an english translation of the word Hérisson you will find things like Hedgehog or Urchin but the name of the river doesn't come from this pretty animal. It comes from Yrisson which means sacred waters in old jura language.

I wanted to visit this area for a long time but i never took any time for that when i was living in Provence. Now i'm closer and it's easier.
I went there for a few family holidays at the end of the past week. It was not intended to be a photography trip but decently i couldn't go there without a camera.

From top to bottom of the river, there are seven main waterfalls :
  • Saut Girard
  • Moulin Jeunet
  • Saut de la Forge
  • Château Garnier
  • Gour Bleu
  • Grand Saut
  • Eventail
The river runs mostly in the forest and autumn is probably the best season for beautiful photography. In summer beautiful lights are really shorts in time and i didn't want to spend most of my days running from top to bottom, looking for nice point of views and trying to guess when the light would be at its best on each waterfall.
So, before leaving home i did some internet searches and decided to work in two places :
  • Saut Girard, because the access is easy.
  • Gour Bleu, because it's really in the forest and i love that.
We arrived on Thursday evening and it was easy to find a place for our van not too far from Saut Girard.

The sky was really cloudy and i started to try different compositions on one side of the waterfall. Suddenly, the clouds left some place for the late evening sun and all the area wath painted with this beautiful golden light.
I mounted my Sigma 10-20 on my camera and ran with my tripod to the middle of the little lake. It's probably the best place to show the waterfall and its neighborhood but it's impossible to find an interesting foreground. That's why the photo is cropped to 16x9 aspect ratio.

The contrast was huge between the sky, the bright rocks and the shadows under the trees. After a few tries, i decided to go for an HDR work and the photo posted here was done from 4 exposures processed with Picturenaut and Silkypix.

Friday 15 July 2011

Weekly commented photo # 28 - First visit to Grand Cret d'Eau mountain

First light on Grand Cret d'Eau mountain - Haut Jura Natural Park
First light on Grand Crêt d'Eau mountain - Haut Jura Natural Park


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.

Friday 8 July 2011

Weekly commented photo # 27 - Cascading water in Valserine river



That's obviously the same place than on my previous weekly commented photo and that's also one of the 36 images i processed yesterday afternoon and that will be uploaded on my french stock website in the next days.

So this week, my comments won't be about this lovely place in Haut Jura Natural Park neither why and how i took this photo. I just want to say a few general words about photographying this kind of scenes.

On several photo sharing sites i've seen many popular images of waterfalls or running water whitout any details in the water. This kind of image can probably give the illusion to be a nice photograph when viewed rapidly on a screen but they certainly won't make beautiful prints.

If a photographer wants to show the water movement there are two things he has to think about :
  • Shutter speed :
    A low shutter speed is perfect for the silky water effect but if it's too low it may kill the effect. I don't know any rule to estimate the right one, it depends of the water speed and quantity and also of how is the light on the water. Of course huge shutter speeds can be used to create other effects.

  • Avoiding over exposure :
    Over exposing the water can destroy a waterfall photo more surely than any other mistake and that's a mistake easy to make with rivers running under the woods like this one. Such places are often relatively darks and the contrast between shadows under the trees and white parts on the water can easily exceed the dynamic range of a camera.
    Avoiding to over expose the water at shooting time is the most important thing but the photographer must also be careful when he processes his raw files. Such files often contain a large part of dark pixels and a small part of highlights corresponding to the water. Lightening the shadows is often needed to give a pleasant image but that must done without sacrifying the highlights.


My french Waterfalls, Rivers and Stream gallery starts to be popular and i'm often asked about how to photograph moving water. These words i choose to write here today are what i answer most of time.

Friday 1 July 2011

Weekly commented photo #26 - Cascading water in Valserine river

Little cascades in Valserine river
Little cascades in Valserine river


I just had a very long and busy week since monday and i really had no time to blog since my last weekly commented photo. If it was a bad week about blogging, it was a good one on the money side.
I have closed two big clients projects : all the shooting is done and all the files processed. Another nice thing is that i had many nice print sales in june. In fact, i can note a real increase of these sales from 3 months. I can just hope things will go on like this in the future ...

On june 24, i returned at dawn to the Valserine valley.
Four days after my first visit, i wanted to explore more the river banks.
That was a nice walk. Sometimes in the water, sometimes in the forest but it ended with a little canyon surrounded by two small cliffs that i couldn't pass safely with my rubber boots and all my photo gear. I think i'll have to find another path to discover the next part of the river.

The image shown above is one of the really first place i found in the river.
On my first day here, there were some big branches across the rocks and the cascades but between my two visits some big rains have cleared the place.
I now have a little ton of raw files from this place and this one is the first and only one i had the time to process during the past week. Things should go better in the next days ...

Friday 24 June 2011

Weekly commented photo #25 - Valserine river in Haut Jura Natural Park

Valserine river running through the forest of Haut Jura Natural Park
Valserine river running through the forest of Haut Jura Natural Park


The Valserine river runs in Haut Jura Natural Park.
It's a small river : a little less than 50 km long. It starts in the mountains near the Faucille pass and ends in the Rhône river at Bellegarde sur Valserine.

We have some friends living in the valley under the Faucille pass. That's about 50 km far from our home but climates are very differents. The place where they live is probably one of the coldest in France :)

So, i often take the road through the Valserine valley.
I was first seduced by the beautiful mountain forest and spent many and unsuccessful days exploring it but never found any interesting place for photography.
During one of these tries, i noticed a little path which seemed to go to the river.

So on june 20, i left home before dawn and drove to the path's entrance. Then i walked about 10 minutes through the forest until i arrived to a beautiful old bridge over the river. I left the path and walked along the river bed.

It was really a beautiful place with little waterfalls between mossy rocks.
I spent about two hours making images all around. I choose this one to post here today because it features the forest as well as the river.

I plan to return soon to explore the place more deeply. Perharps will i also find a nice place for forest photography ...

Friday 17 June 2011

Weekly commented photo #24 - Cheran canyon through Massif des Bauges forest

Cheran canyon through Massif des Bauges forest
Cheran canyon through Massif des Bauges forest


For my second morning at the Chéran river i wanted this overview of the canyon from the Abîme bridge but arrived on the place it was not really easy to realize :

The bridge is really narrow and the sidewalks too tights for the 3 legs of my tripod. I had to fold completely one of this legs and just put it on a diagonal metallic beam. It was not the most stable setup i ever had but it worked.

The bridge is hanged by many big red wires and i couldn't use a lens wider than 28 mm without including one of them in the frame. I could take some photos of the river but not this general view i wanted.
I was about to renounce to this image and go directly to the river when i had an idea :

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you may know that i'm a long time user of PTGui.
Ten years ago i was using it very often to stitch images for classic panoramic landscapes but also to get more resolution that the old digital cameras could give.
Today any DSLR give enough pixels for most of my needs and i still make stitched images but only from time to time.

So before packing all my gear to go to the river, i took 4 horizontal photos with my 28 mm lens, panning the camera vertically between each.
Once back at the office, stitching these 4 images with PTGui was easy and it gave me a 20 megapixels file.

Friday 10 June 2011

Weeky commented photo #23 - Rural landscape, mountains and clouds

Rural landscape before dusk in Haute Savoie
Rural landscape before dusk in Haute Savoie


I'm still working on the serie about The rural landscapes around my home.
This image was done about one month ago. I was making photos of some rural fields in the light of the end of afternoon when i noticed these beautiful clouds formation over the mountains in the far background.

Scenes with such a dynamic range are not easy to capture :
  • You can use some GND filters to balance highlights in the sky and foreground shadows
  • You can make several shots of the scene with different exposures and then blend them digitally (using HDR method or not)
The day was a little wendy and i felt a little too lazy for multiple exposures.
So i mounted a 1.2 soft GND filter in front of my lens and could capture a raw file where highlights and shadows were both respected.

No information was lost but the raw file was difficult to process to obtain a nice photo. After many tries with curves tweaks, manual masking, etc i developped my raw files with three different exposure ajustments.
Then i used Picturenaut to produce and tonemap an hdr file.
The result was then saved as a 48 bits TIFF file that just needed some minor adjustments do give the photo you can see here.

I like to name things by their real names and for me such a worflow is not HDR Photography. There is no magic and whatever the algorithm you choose to process a single file, it can't give you more information that what is included into this single file.
If i would have shot the scene without the GND filter i would have exposed it to protect the sky for clipping and then the foreground would have been really underexposed. Then using any method to retrive informations in the shadows would have revealed more noise than image details.

Friday 3 June 2011

Weekly commented photo #22 - A little waterfall in Provence hills

A little waterfall in Provence hills
A little waterfall in Provence hills


This is probably one of my very first images about the little streams running through the hills and mountains of the Massif des Maures in Provence.

These streams and rivers keep the life in this wild natural area but many of them (like this one) are dry most of the time. Water only runs after big rains like the ones we had in the first days of september 2005.
I was driving back from my office when i noticed this little waterfall in the forest (i could say bush) along the road. I stopped the car, walked a little through some sharps brambles and arrived at the "river" where i could make this image and a few other ones.

When processing the files, i realized that images of these streams should be rare and could interest many people working around environment, climate and global warming.
So i started to work more seriously on that subject and it was a good idea :
  • I licensed about 10 images of this serie for different uses.
  • It made me discover more deeply this wonderful area.
These images must be really rare because someone had the bad idea to stole one of my fav on my french website to promote a commercial event.
I don't know how they upsized the original 640 pixels wide photo but they used it in A3 and A4 prints, flyers, PDFs and websites.

They were unlucky because i found a flyer at the post office. When i contacted the event oragnisation they started to say it was not my image, when i showed the original they say they bought it on a microstock site but then, they were of course not able to give any proof.
Finally they had no other choice than paying the full rights for all their uses plus a 100% increase for the theft ...

Friday 27 May 2011

Weekly commented photo #21 - Silky water in the Cheran river

Silky water in the Chéran river - Massif des Bauges natural park
Silky water in the Chéran river - Massif des Bauges natural park


The Chéran river is one of the main rivers of the Massif des Bauges natural park.
The river is crossed by a famous old and nice bridge : the Abîme bridge or Pont de l'Abîme in french. The bridge overhangs the Chéran canyon in a very impressive place.

I went there initially on sunday without any photographic gear, just to find a great point of view on the bridge over the canyon.
I didn't found any interesting place and decided to go down to river for a little more exploration.
The path to the river runs through a very beautiful forest which can be a very good photographic subject in itself.
When i arrived to the river, there were many fishermen on the place, doing what fishermen are supposed to do.
In that first place, the river is looking nice and it's certainly a good place for bathing or fishing but for a photographer it's not an exciting one.

So, i walked along the canyon until i was stopped by some high cliffs. Then, i climbed a little rock overhanging the river with a tiny platform on its top.
Under, the water was nicely accelerated between many rocks in the river bed.
I thought it could be a good place to start and decided to come back the next day with a camera.

On monday, i left home before 5 am, drove to the bridge and took the path to the river.
Crossing the forest in dawn light was an enchantment and i couldn't resist to a few shots.
After a little walk, i arrived to my platform and started to set up my tripod. It was not an easy thing because the platform was really small. After some time, i managed to find a correct place for the tripod legs but then, my feets could just stay on the more steep and slippy part of the rock.
I didn't felt very comfortable but it seemed i had no other choice. It was not comfortable but not too much dangerous. In fact, the worst thing was that the composition possibilities were a bit limited.

The light was still soft and low and i started by some few shots of the water running through the rocks. I also (and difficultly) took a more wider view of the valley.
After this first bunch of images, i reviewed them on the back screen of the camera and choose to scenes for making some long exposures with my Hoya ND 400 filter. The first is the one posted here and the second one is just the vertical version. For both, exposure time was a bit more than 200 seconds at iso 100. In such conditions, exposing to the right is very important and works finely : the raw files were really noise free.

Friday 20 May 2011

Weekly commented photo #20 - The forest in the mountains of Massif des Bauges natural park

Forest in the mountains of Massif des Bauges natural park
Forest in the mountains of Massif des Bauges natural park


In France, we have 3 kinds of natural parks :
  • Marine natural parks.
  • National parks.
  • Regional natural parks.
There are two Marine natural parks. About ten National parks (9 really but one new should be created soon) and tens of Regional natural parks (some are also created from time to time).

The Massif des Bauges regional natural park was created at the end of 1995 and includes some very nice areas of mountains and rural places from Savoie and Haute Savoie departments.

I know many of these places from a long time before the park's creation. When i was younger i often went there for mountaineering, hiking or cycling.

The park was created while i was living in Provence and i was hearing by the news, friends and family that the Massif des Bauges was becoming more and more famous. More and more famous for its nature, for its cheese, for its landscapes, ...
I have to say that i was a little afraid that it becomes before all a tourist place.

Since we came back to live in Haute Savoie last summer, i went to the Massif des Bauges a very few times and i could seen that things changed but not too much. Some villages just look a little more modern and seem to be a little less lost in the wilderness.

This image was done in march during my first but unsuccessful try of photography in the park.
After spending hours with driving and walking under a dull light in the Savoie's mountains i decided to come back and explore some areas closer to Annecy. I finally stopped in that forest just near Bellecombe en Bauges.
It started to be late but i could make a few photos before the night and noted this place as one i would have to visit again.

Saturday 14 May 2011

Blossoming trees in the garden and a few words about the recent Blogger problem

Blossoming trees in the field
Blossoming trees in the field


This image is about one month old (april 12) and now the flowers are gone.
This field is just under my house and that's where i often go to drink my morning coffee :)

I've promised to post a weekly commented photo on this blog every Friday (see here).
As i'm not in the office every friday, i often use the schedule posts function in Blogger.
So, on Thursday i had a few time to write my WCP #19 post and schduled it for the next day.

But, during this period and until this morning Blogger encountered some big problems during a maintenance operation.
  • It was first impossible to save correctly my post. After a few times it finally worked.
  • Then Blogger went to read only mode.
  • Then they "deleted" a huge amount of recent posts.
  • When Blogger came back to normal mode this morning, i could see that my post was in the deleted batch.
  • A few hours later it was still not published but it was restored in the admin panel and i just had to correct the schedule date and reenter the tags.

I use Blogger since 2007 and that's the first time i experienced a real problem. For me, they did a good job. I didn't loose anything but tags and they gave many information on their Twitter account.

Weekly commented photo #19 : Coniferous and deciduous trees in Valserine forest

Coniferous and deciduous trees in the mountains of Valserine valley
Coniferous and deciduous trees in the mountains of Valserine valley


After my first and unsucessful try in the Valserine valley, i returned there last week under a beautiful blue sky. It's not my favourite weather for photography but at least it was not raining cats and dogs.

After about one hour driving i arrived in the valley. My initial thought was to make some photos inside the forest.
I found one place to park my car along the (very) narrow road and started to walk, searching one place to penetrate the forest.
It was not an easy thing. The forest was hardly steep and i had dead leaves up to my knees. Most of all, stones were falling down from the cliffs over the forest ...
Although i've been an active rock climber and alpinist during more than 20 years i didn't feel very secure.

My tripod helped me to climb and stay on my legs in the slope but event a Manfrotto one is not a real mountaineering tool :)
I probably spent a little more than one hour in that place, trying to make images.
Composition was very difficult in the steep slope and even the tripod was not easy to set up.
I think i've one acceptable image from this uncomfortable hour.

Then i went back (down would be a more exact word) to my car and continued my exploration of the valley.

I drove, stopped, walked, drove, stopped, walked and so on until the end of the afternoon.
I found one or two beautiful places for landscape photography but it was not the good time.
I was fed up before dusk and decided to come back home.

The image above was done from the road side while drinving back in the valley.
It would probably have been really more beautiful if i had waited one or two more hours but i was not in that feeling.

I've spent more than half a day scouting there and i still don't know exactly where and when to return to make the images i want ...

Friday 6 May 2011

Weekly commented photo #18 - Arcine castle on the Vuache mountain

Arcine castle on the Vuache mountain
Arcine castle on the Vuache mountain


This very little castle was probably built in the 12th century.

I've heard of it many times since we came back to live in Haute Savoie and i wanted some images for my stock. That's why i came to Arcine for the first time.

As you can imagine, i was a little disapointed when i saw the castle for the first time. I was expecting something a bit more spectacular.
I turned around during a moment but the best point of you i found this day was this one. It's a bit far from the monument but it shows the most interesting walls and it was going well with the light of this end of afternoon. It also shows how the castle hangs on the slope of the Vuache mountain.

Friday 29 April 2011

Weekly commented photo #17 : Cereal field in the wind

Cereal field in the wind
Cereal field in the wind


On wednesday i wanted to go to the mountains of the Valserine valley to make images of the fresh green leaves inthe forest.
I left home under a cloudy and windy weather and arrived on the place about one hour later under an impressive rain. I hesitated a short time and decided to go back and continue my office work.

So one hour later i was not too far from home when i noticed a cereal field along the tiny road i was driving on.
The weather was still cloudy giving a very nice light on the landscape and the cereals were dancing in the wind.

I parked my car, walked to the field and the was a little disapointed because a high voltage power line was crossing the sky just here.
I abandoned the idea of a landscape with the field overhung by a stunning cloudy sky and decided that the day was definitely not good for photography.

I was about to walk back to my car when i had the idea to try some closeups. The wind was strong and getting a sharp image looked impossible.
After a few shots, i mounted my Hoya ND 400 filter on my lens and decided to let the wind play with the grass.
On this image, the exposure was around one minute long.

Friday 22 April 2011

Weekly commented photo #16 : Wind at dusk on the Rhône river

Wind at dusk on the Rhône river
Wind at dusk on the Rhône river


Last week, i showed you an overview of the Rhône valley near Arcine. The image was done on my first day in this area.
During this first day i also spent a lot of time exploring the little paths through the fields and forests. In the evening i found one going to the river but it was too late and i decided to report my visit to another time.

The day after, i was back with the firm intention to go to the rivers, explore its borders and find nice point of views.
But while on the road i found an other nice overview of the valley, so i stopped.
After that i took the little path found the day before and it was crossing a beautiful forest. So i stopped and made a few images of the trees with their fresh springtime leaves.

Like you devine, i arrived very late at the river and had no time to really explore for a stunning point of view.
I made a few images in the dusk light. A very strong wind from north was blowing and getting something sharp in the low light was just impossible so i decided to let the things go.
Later, while processing the files i was seduced by this blurred but living image.

Friday 15 April 2011

Weekly commented photo #15 - An overview of the Rhône valley in the early springtime

The Rhône valley seen from Arcine - Haute Savoie
The Rhône valley seen from Arcine - Haute Savoie


The Rhône is one of the main river in France. It's not really a french one because it comes from the Swiss alps, feeds the Leman lake and then comes into France at one end of the Vuache mountain. Then it crosses the country to the Mediterranean sea during 545 kilometers.

This image was done 2 days ago on the first french kilometers of the river.
I went to Arcine in the late afternoon because i wanted to make images of the castle for my stock.
After what i went for a little exploration at the end of the Vuache mountain and while driving i saw the Rhône valley through the trees along the road.
As my initial exploration about the mountain was not successful i decided to change my goals a to find a nice point of view on the river.
After a few kilometers drive, i found a little road leading to a perfect place offering a nice overlooking view on the valley.

After setting up my tripod and camera plus a long lens and making a few test shots, i waited a little less than one hour for a better light. All the day was really windy but fortunately the wind stopped at dusk and that really helps to get sharp images from a telephoto lens.

As told yesterday, i really love these fresh colors of springtime but i hope this place will still give better images in autumn.

Friday 8 April 2011

Weekly commented photo #14 - Welcome to the Happiness Valley

Vallée du Bonheur - Cévennes National Park
Vallée du Bonheur - Cévennes National Park


A few words about the title :
Bonheur is the french word for Happiness and it's also the name of this river running through the Cévennes National Park in south of France.

I was there for some family reasons at the end of march and i spent one day in the Vallée du Bonheur.
It was the first time i went there and i've to say that it's surely a wonderful place for landscape photography. The river runs through some wet (at least at spring) fields surrounded by some beautiful forests of beeches and various coniferous trees.

This day we had bad, windy and rainy weather emphasizing the wild aspect of the landscapes all around.

With my wife, daughter and friends we hiked along the valley during one afternoon.
This image was done at the beginning of our walk and is one of the very few usable photo i took this day. Most of the others were "damaged" by rain drops splashed on my lens.
In such conditions, one have to operate quickly : compose the image without the camera, evaluate the light, setup the tripod, unpack the camera, set exposure, focus and pack all in a dry place.
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