Posts about cloud
The winds from the south
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Southerly winds form cloud waterfalls in the high mountains of the Swiss Alps.
Saharan dust in the air
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Almost every year, prevailing winds bring fine dust and sand from the Sahara desert to southern Europe.
Heaven is this
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Sitting, cross-legged, a couple of arms’ length from the edge of a two-and-a-half-thousand foot drop to the valley floor, watching clouds drift across the lake into the distance.
Birg to Schilthorn
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Time-lapse video of the cable-car ride from Birg to Schilthorn in Swiss canton Bern.
Stunning
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There’s a trend these days for people to use the word “stunning”: from tabloid newspapers to t.v. presenters. And their use of the word so often makes everyone else use it. A view of the sea: “stunning”. A fashionable dress: “stunning”. A film star looking average on a red carpet somewhere: “stunning”. I think that use of the…
Schilthorn in the clouds
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Small gallery of photos from a 2005 summer trip to the Piz Gloria revolving mountain-top restaurant above Mürren, made famous by the 1969 James Bond Film “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service”.
Storm Approaching
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This is a rapidly conceived and executed shot, as a big storm headed in from the Simmen valley from western Switzerland. I saw the distant clouds being illuminated by lightning (which accounts for the varied colouring in the clouds) so I grabbed a tripod and framed my shot from our living room window, setting exposure…
