Like an autumn smell in the Alps

Like an autumn smell in the Alps

 

An image from my visit a few days ago in Savoie mountains. More to come next week.

Noiseless

Noiseless

 

Unexpected elegance

Unexpected elegance

 

Some trees i see every day for now five years.
Mist and snow gave me another sight.

Three in a row

Three in a row

 

A white morning in the snow

A white morning in the snow

 

One more of February snowfalls in the rural landscape around my home.

More images of snow in France

A winter day with mist and snow

A winter day with mist and snow

 

More images of snow

Two trees in the snow

Two trees in the snow

 

During a short walk in the rural landscape around my home after a few days of snowfall.

Autumn colors in snow and mist

Autumn colors in snow and mist

 

One more autumn view of the french countryside in the mist after the first snowfalls in november.

Mist and snow by an autumn morning

Mist and snow by an autumn morning

 

A few weeks ago i was thinking we wouldn't have any mist this autumn. I started to change my mind while doing the image in my previous post but the mist was still a little far. A few minutes later i was just into, for a short time ...

All my photos from this day have been published on my website, you can check them from this page.

First snow in Haute Savoie

First snow

 

For a few days we have some unusual early snow falls here.
I went yesterday morning for a little hike in the rural landscape around my home and went back with a few images.
I like this one with the village but also did some other ones of the trees with their orange leaves covered by snow.

Resting snow

Resting snow

 

Protected from the sun by the north face, protected from the rain by the overhanging rocks, i found some snow at the end of august, just under the cliffs of Bargy mountain.

French countryside in the snow

French countryside in the snow

 

An image from december with the first snow on the rural landscape around my home.

Snow on Musièges village

Snow on Musièges village

 

That's obviously the vertical version of an image i have posted here about ten days ago.
I was about to post something else today but i finally thought that this one would be perfect for the first day of winter.
Did i say winter ? Hum, for more than one week, weather here is (relatively) hot and loudly rainy.

Happy Christmas to all of you !

White trees and blue sky

White trees and blue sky

 

Another image from this morning i spent in the snow about 10 days ago.
Sun and clouds played during a short time until clouds won.

Snow and sun on the french vineyard

Snow and sun on the french vineyard

 

I left home in the early morning under a white sky after a snowy night.
After a short walk in the deep fresh snow, i arrived in the vineyards. While i was trying to find some interesting points of view without leaving too much footprints in the landscape, the sun shortly popped through the clouds and lit the field with this beautiful light.
I just had the time to make 2 images of this scene : this one and a vertical version.

Snow around Musièges village

Snow around Musièges village

 

Today, i woke up before dawn, decided to go for a photographic hike on Vuache mountain.

After a few steps in my garden, i had to change my mind : snow was higher than my knees and climbing the mountain was not the best idea. So, i went for a walk in my close neighborhood. After somes images of snow over the meadows, trees and vineyards, i took my longer lens and turned it to the hill of Musièges village.

First snow on the rural landscape

First snow on the rural landscape around Musièges moutain

 

An image from today.
Winter is not officialy here but we have some nice snow falls here for about one week.
I just needed a little jump out of the house this afternoon for this new image to add to my ongoing serie about the rural landscapes around my home.

A cold time at Annecy lake

A cold time at Annecy lake

 

A reminder of the very cold 2012 winter we had here.
I stayed really late on that place this evening, waiting for a deep blue hour and i still remember the cold in my bones.

Winter dusk on Pointe Percee mountain

Winter dusk on Pointe Percée mountain

 

A winter reminder with this image from march.

Pointe Percée is the highest point of Aravis mountain range with an elevation of 2750 meters.

This image was done from a remote place with a long lens mounted on a APS-C camera. Light was very nice but i had to wait a long time for the wind to stop a little and get something sharp.

 

Note : you can visit the following link to check all my images of Aravis mountains.

Dusk light on the Aiguille des Glaciers

Dusk light on the Aiguille des Glaciers

The Aiguille des Glaciers has an elevation of around 3 800 meters.
It's part of Mont-Blanc mountain range but this image was taken from Aravis mountains range.