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Searching for viewpoints, poring over maps, dodging power lines, and coming home with classic landscape images.

The views from the immense vineyards along the northern shore of Lac Léman (Lake Geneva) are pretty spectacular, no matter what time of day. At dusk, in early summer, the lights of the town of Vevey and Montreux twinkle in the distance, while the lanes amongst the vines are all but deserted.

Perfect landscape photography weather in Romandie today. I was in Vevey to visit the photographic flea market and made a bargain purchase of a Manfrotto pro tripod and head, then headed out to use them :)

www.images.ch/2010/artistes/Malick_Sidibe-9.html View more from my series of photos at the Images Festival in Vevey a couple of weeks ago on my website.

Jo in the Vevey History Museum this past weekend.

The Images Festival of Visual Arts is the only open air photographic festival in Switzerland, which takes place in the picturesque town of Vevey, on the shores of Lake Geneva, every two years.

Similar technique to the previous shot from this session, shooting directly into bright sunlight and allowing flare to create the soft effect. This shot was less contrasty as there was a curtain of leaves between Fanny and the sun.

One of the shots from a photo session yesterday afternoon along the shores of Lac Léman. After shooting other pictures in the woods, we went to an area of open sunshine and I asked Fanny to stand with her back to the sun. I then took up position in the shadow she cast, with the […]

An HDR-like image which hasn’t been over-done! ;-)

See Dad’s shot here.

We love Vevey and its eccentricity. See Dad’s photo here and more information about the Giant Fork sculpture here.