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At the border of the high Padan Plain, just at the feet of the first line of the Prealps, there lays a string of five lakes. They draw a line that is the base of the so-called Larian triangle, i.e. the triangle-shaped mountainous land between the two arms of the Lake Como (also called Lario). These lakes, often called the Lakes Briantei, or the Brianza Lakes (from the name of that land, Brianza), are way smaller than the Lario and the other great lakes of Northern Italy - just a string of beads in the higher plain - but they share the beauty of their larger cousins, although on a smaller, more intimate scale. I have always felt quite strongly the fascination of their common origin, which dates from the end of the Würm glaciation, some 11,700 years ago. I can easily see in my mind the enormous, mighty glaciers from the Alps flowing beyond the last mountains and spreading through the high plain. A powerful sight, indeed... Yet all that glory was deemed to end as the climate was becoming warmer, and eventually the glaciers began to recede, leaving behind deep ditches and huge semilunar terminal morains. You can easily fill in the story - the melting waters, the swamps, the debris from the looming mountains, and, eventually, the lakes.
Well, this is not a lesson in geology - I am by no means an expert, just a guy who perceives geology in a very emotional way (quite possibly a trait acquired from my late father, who was a passionate amateur mineral and fossil prospector). I have begun a photographic exploration of those relics of the last glaciation, the Lakes Briantei. At sunrise, of course. My first session was at the Lake Annone, the largest one, that is divided in two basins by a narrow peninsula. I limited myself to the Western basin, mostly looking Eastward.
It had obviously been a stormy night on the mountains: occasional, distant thunders were still rumbling Eastward, above the Resegone*. The sky was overcast, angry, threatening - one of the very few weakenings of the African cyclone that was ravaging Italy and a large part of Europe. The air smelled of rain. And I tried to capture the beauty of the place, with that tormented sky gradually opening up to hail the new day. This photo is the result of the very first exposure bracketing I took on that morning. I hope that you like it!
Explored on 2022/08/21 #26
* This strange name means "the great saw", the word "resega" meaning "saw" in the Lombard dialects. It is a mountain towering over the city of Lecco and the southern end of Lake Como, characterised by a long line of Triassic dolomite summits, the teeth of the saw). It is featured in Manzoni's renowned historical novel, The Bethroted, most prominently in the famous passage from chapter 8 known as Farewell to the mountains.
After all this about the Resegone you might be wondering where it is in the photo. Well, er... it is entirely invisible from this point of view, being out of the framing on the right, behind that mountain and beyond the Eastern arm of the Lake Como. Please, forgive me and understand my feelings: I was hearing the thunders echoing from its precipitous rocky walls and absolutely had to tell you! By the way, I have completely forgotten to even mention the mountains that are in the framing, namely, from left to the right: the Grigna massif (Northern Grigna on the left, Southern Grigna on the right, with its crowd of rocky pinnacles and needles). Further away, where the light of the new day was gathering, you can glimpse the elegant outline of the Pizzo dei Tre Signori (= "Peak of the Three Lords", a name stemming from the historical division of the area that it marked, between the State of Milan, the Republic of Venice and the Grisons canton of Switzerland).
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to several parts of the scene, mainly the foreground. As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Raw files processed with Darktable.
... More than watchmen long for the morning...
At the border of the high Padan Plain, just at the feet of the first line of the Prealps, there lays a string of five lakes. They draw a line that is the base of the so-called Larian triangle, i.e. the triangle-shaped mountainous land between the two arms of the Lake Como (also called Lario). These lakes, often called the Lakes Briantei, or the Brianza Lakes (from the name of that land, Brianza), are way smaller than the Lario and the other great lakes of Northern Italy - just a string of beads in the higher plain - but they share the beauty of their larger cousins, although on a smaller, more intimate scale. I have always felt quite strongly the fascination of their common origin, which dates from the end of the Würm glaciation, some 11,700 years ago. I can easily see in my mind the enormous, mighty glaciers from the Alps flowing beyond the last mountains and spreading through the high plain. A powerful sight, indeed... Yet all that glory was deemed to end as the climate was becoming warmer, and eventually the glaciers began to recede, leaving behind deep ditches and huge semilunar terminal morains. You can easily fill in the story - the melting waters, the swamps, the debris from the looming mountains, and, eventually, the lakes.
Well, this is not a lesson in geology - I am by no means an expert, just a guy who perceives geology in a very emotional way (quite possibly a trait acquired from my late father, who was a passionate amateur mineral and fossil prospector).
I have begun a photographic exploration of those relics of the last glaciation, the Lakes Briantei. At sunrise, of course.
My second (and last, for now) session was at the Lake Alserio, a small, rather shallow one (its average depth is 5,4 m (17,7 ft)). Yet it is a very fascinating lake, completely surrounded by a variety of natural habitats that has always hindered urban development in the close vicinity of the lake. Its placid waters are rich in waterlilies and birds of all kinds.
I took this photo a bit later than my previous post from the same lake, La vie en rose: it had been a fleeting moment, just the time to take a couple of exposure bracketings. Then the world turned into liquid gold and the sunrise proper began to unfold before me, as the clouds looming on the horizon became alive with the fiery fires of the rising sun. Even as the incandescent orb of the sun was thoroughly hidden from my sight, red and orange sunshafts began to pierce the thick shroud of clouds and a morning hymn resounded within my soul - trumpets and flutes, and horns, and streams of light from the very source of life on Earth. This magic moment was the second gift of that morning and I have done my best to capture its beauty as a gift for everyone who will enjoy it.
Explored on 2022/09/24 #40
I have processed this picture by blending an exposure bracketing [-2.0/-1.0/0/+1.0/+2.0 EV] by luminosity masks with the Gimp (EXIF data, as usual, refer to the "normal" exposure shot).
Along the journey - post-processing always is a journey of discovery to me - I tried the inverted RGB blue channel technique described by Boris Hajdukovic to give a slight tonal boost to the reflections and to some parts of the sky. As usual, I gave the finishing touches with Nik Color Efex Pro 4.
Raw files processed with Darktable.
Road of the Heroes - Pasubio 20190901
La Strada degli Eroi (Road of the Heroes) is a scary curvy mountainous road in the Pasubio group, a mountain range of the Venetian Prealps in Trentino and the provinces of Vicenza, Italy, built-in 1922, after the First World War, to equip the summit area of the mountain with access for motor vehicles.
The ridge of Monte Camozzera and Mt. Resegone.
Available on Getty:
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L'Arzino è un torrente del Friuli Venezia Giulia che nasce dal Monte Valcalda (Prealpi Carniche) a 1.908 metri s.l.m., attraversando longitudinalmente durante il suo corso la Val d'Arzino, a cui da il nome, ed i comuni di Preone, Verzegnis, Vito d'Asio, Forgaria nel Friuli e Pinzano al Tagliamento, presso il quale sfocia nel fiume Tagliamento, di cui è affluente di destra.
A pochi metri dalla sua sorgente, in corrispondenza di un brusco cambio di pendenza della valle, il torrente Arzino dà origine a una serie di cascate, in seguito agli imponenti fenomeni erosivi che lo caratterizzano. I salti d'acqua, circondati da rigogliose faggete, si alternano ad ampie vasche di erosione e a profonde e verdissime pozze.
Le Jorat est le plus grand massif forestier du Plateau Suisse., Avec plus de 4000 hectares, il constitue le dernier relais boisé entre le Jura et les Préalpes.
France, Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, Département de la Drôme (26), massif des Préalpes, Vercors méridional, Plateau du Font d'Urle, vue sur le Plateau d'Ambel et les hauteurs du Roc de Toulau (1581m)
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pour mémoire, j'avais déjà publié celle ci issue du même spot :
www.flickr.com/photos/128404492@N04/37070720821/in/album-...
Mont Aiguille is a limestone mesa, previously connected to the main body of the high plateau of the Vercors Massif (right). According to Roman legend, the mountain was torn from the rest of the Vercors when a hunter saw naked goddesses on the mountain and was changed into an ibex as punishment. In the medieval period, Mont Aiguille was traditionally called "Mount Inaccessible", and typically depicted as an "inverted pyramid" or "mushroom". When I first saw the mountain from afar on a hike 10 years ago it left me wondering if I had found a Lost World in the middle of France. Two return visits later it has not lost its aura of mystique.
IL MONTE CAVALLO.
Il monte Cavallo è una grande montagna delle Prealpi bellunesi che raggiunge i 2.251 m s.l.m. Si trova alle spalle del Pordenonese, ergendosi sulla pianura sottostante in modo solenne, per uno sviluppo che supera i 2000 metri. Questo lo rende ben visibile sia da Venezia che dalla costa Adriatica nelle giornate limpide.
Piancavallo sorge a 1.280 m s.l.m., in una conca del versante orientale del Monte Cavallo (alto 2.251 m), vicino alla foresta del Cansiglio.
Piancavallo è sorta alla fine degli anni sessanta. È stata la prima stazione sciistica italiana a installare un sistema di innevamento artificiale. Ospitò dal 1979 agli inizi degli anni novanta varie gare femminili di Coppa del Mondo di sci alpino . Dal 1970 vi si è svolto per molti anni il Rally Piancavallo di valenza europea; ora si svolge annualmente un rally di livello nazionale. Ha ospitato l'arrivo di una tappa del Giro d'Italia del 1998, dove ha visto imporsi Marco Pantani,
CANON EOS 600D con ob- SIGMA 70-300 f./4-5,6 DG
Vieille pinte (établissement public avec débit de boissons) vers le lieu-dit "En Scherwyl", alt. 755m. Date de construction estimée 1620-1629. Début du 17e s.
Commune de la Roche,
District de la Gruyère - Greyerz
Canton de Fribourg - Freiburg
Suisse Schweiz Switzerland Svizzera
du 14.02.2019 au 19.02.2019 - Sans Grps _
19.02.2019 : 1295 vues => "French"
03.03.2019 : 1323 vues (+28 vues) => Sans Groupe...
14.03.2019 : 1851 vues (+528 vues) => Sans groupe.
Chalet d'alpage vers le lieu-dit "Les Joux-derrières d'Avau", alt. 1108m.
Commune de Vaulruz
District de la Gruyère - Greyerz
Canton de Fribourg - Freiburg
Suisse Schweiz Switzerland
IL LAGO DI CORNINO.
Le acque del lago di Cornino sono facilmente distinguibili da quelle provenienti dalle Prealpi per una “traccia” chimica che le contraddistingue: provenendo dal bacino del Tagliamento esse si caricano di solfato di calcio ricavato dalla dissoluzione dei gessi che abbondano nel suo bacino, mentre sono assenti nei bacini prealpini. Al lago giungono pure acque di diversa origine che provengono dal altipiano di Monte Prat. La pioggia che qui cade viene completamente assorbita dalle doline e dagli inghiottitoi e va ad alimentare una circolazione di natura carsica in grado di attraversare tutta la massa di rocce calcaree.
CANON EOS 600D con ob. SIGMA 10-20 f./4-5,6 EX DC HSM
Les Préalpes de la Gruyère émergent du brouillard pour un dernier rayon de soleil: Dents de Brenleire et Folliéran, Vanil Noir, Vanil de l'Ecri, Pointe de Paray et Gros Perré.
(Panorama 3 x 1)
Veduta del Monte Summano da Monte Pelà, Schio (Vicenza)
Prealpi Vicentine, Veneto Italy
(Composizione di 3 foto) Marzo 2014 - Sony DSC-W35
Pol Sberzè Jewels * Made in Italy
Lessini Mountain and Cima Carega 20231106
Lessinia is the mountain zone just north of Verona, between the city and the Little Dolomites of Vicentino.
Its summits generally top out at between 1,500 and 1,800 meters high whilst, to the west, the Carega range reaches more than 2,200 meters
The area of its territory that extends over the higher plateau of the Monti Lessini is a part of the Parco Naturale Regionale della Lessinia (Regional Natural Park of Lessinia). Lessinia is rich in flora and fauna, especially in birds, from the golden eagle to the grey heron.
Lessinia is an area which has been inhabited since the dawn of time, thanks in part to the abundance of flint and the presence of caves offering shelter.
La nebbia tesse le sue soffici trame, dividendoci dalla sottostante pianura. E noi quassù a sognare di essere finalmente giunti sull'isola che non c'è.
Negli inverni del riscaldamento globale, la neve sembra un miraggio. Accade pertanto che gli orizzonti invernali siano delimitati da muraglie rocciose quasi del tutto spoglie. Paesaggi inquietanti, come il futuro ..... ..