When you go hiking in the alps you have to get up at an unearthly hour. On the plus side you get rewarded with views like this.
Tag: Berner Oberland
The Epitome of Soaring
I’ve shown this photo before but how could I not show it again with this prompt?
The Ragtag Daily Prompt: Soaring.
I’m a fan of frames
I happened to be in Michelstadt im Odenwald a couple of days ago and came across this frame with the thieves tower behind it. It made me think of other frame installations I’ve seen in the past.
Ladenburg has frames like this along the walk through town to show what the area used to look before the walk was constructed.
This frame is from Leazes’ Park in Newcastle, behind St James’ Park of football fame.
Only a few kilometres to the east in Sunderland is this big shutter framing Roker lighthouse.
And the ultimate frame high in the Alps opposite this view:
The Eiger in the Bernese Alps.
Fan of … #95 where you can find more fanatical photos.
On top of my world
This is the mountain lodge on top of the Faulhorn in the Berner Oberland. It is the highest altitude I’ve ever reached on my own feet (no cable car or any other form of transport) – 2,681 metres above sea level. All the supplies come by helicopter and there is no water. The glacier close by has ceased to exist and water is now pumped from an artificial pond which collects rainwater and melted snow. There is one large room with communal bunks on the floor, you either sleep downstairs or upstairs on the inside balcony. It’s only open during the summer months.
This is my first top square for Becky’s April Square Challenge.
The way down:
Framed!
“Photography is about finding out what can happen in the frame. When you put four edges around some facts, you change those facts.”
Garry Winogrand
Step through the frame and find out (Leazes Park in Newcastle).
And he stepped through the frame.
In Ladenburg they have these signs all over town to show how the landscape was changed to make paths and parks more inviting. On the left are photos of what it looked before and it can be compared with the reality today. It was found that just putting up the photos wouldn’t be enough, so a frame was offered, similar to the frame of the old photograph to make the views comparable. Because a frame changes things.
A frame also helps to focus the attention. Or possibly, it allows people to cope with nature if they are used to seeing things only framed ?
Linked to Travel with Intent. More photos inspired by the quotation by G. Winogrand (what a wonderful name!) are collected here.
Light. Lighter.
We’d been hiking for three days between 2000 and 3000 m altitude – which is the only reason I can give for taking not more photos of this amazing sight (I have exactly 4 shots) of microlight paragliders.
Where I live, there are mostly the motorised microlight pilots. The motor announces their approach so I often have time to grab the camera in time.
Higher up and further away, almost mingling with the clouds, still light as a feather.
And sometimes their flight leads them into the light of the setting sun.
#19 square lights Microlight
What goes up must come down
“All our sweetest hours fly fastest.”
Virgil
More photos inspired by Virgil can be found at Travel with Intent.
5 words, 5 photos
Thursday’s Special has another pick a word challenge. I picked all five.
For real now.
We should have moved a bit to the left.
But I know where the artist stood for his painting.
This is in response to a painting by Ferdinand Hodler featured in Chronicles of an Anglo-Swiss, a fellow blogger’s site.
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