Hitchcock reloaded: the Swiss syndrome
Winter seagulls looking for (and finding) food on the shores of Lake Zurich. Click on each picture to magnify.
Love is … on a cold Autumn eve on Lake Zurich
Love is a dark silhouette … invisible without a colourful background.
Pictures shot hand-held in the darkness of a November eve thanks to Nikon D800 plus Nikon f/1.4 50 mm (f/1.6 ISO 800 1/100 sec)
Through the rough Judean desert to the calm shores of the Dead Sea (Israel)
Through the desert where Satan tempted Jesus for 40 days and 40 nights …
you can meet the ruins of an abandoned settlement at the side of the motor road:
a black, hot ribbon that cuts through a couple of check-points to reach the shores of the Dead Sea.
Pools of water evaporation
stretch from Israel border East to Jordan, at the other side of the Dead Sea.
Enjoy the colours and shapes of this waters containing 34% of salt (10 times more than Mediterranean sea)
and its atolls made out precipitated salt
Relax by floating on the water surfaces
but keep this extremely salty water out of mouth and eyes… otherwise …
Click on each picture to magnify. Pictures shot with D800 plus 70-200 f/2.8 or 16-35 f/4
Come to Acre (Israel): 5000 years of history await you.
First traces of Acre date back to Heracles, who once upon a time healed his wounds exactly here (!) …
Here the markets met Alexander the Great, Julius Caesar, Cleopatra, King Herod, Paul the Apostle and Marco Polo.
These walls and tunnels were built and destroyed and re-built by crusaders and mamluks, conquered by Richard the Lionheart and Philip II Roi de France.
Pay a visit to Acre Mosque, erected by the Sultan Jazzar Pasha, aka “the Butcher”
This is Acre harbour, where the defeated Napoleon watched for the last time the towers of Acre …
Free time at Haifa Harbour, Israel
Haifa is the city for work, Tel Aviv for relax, Jerusalem for praying, Acco for history … so they say. Still, some relax you can find also in Haifa, at the docks.
Surfers …
Chess players …
Fishermen …
European tourists …
Crab killers …
View of Haifa harbour from the city of Acco, located 17 kms away at the front bay side. In the center, the temple of Baha’i. Please appreciate the 70-200 mm f/2.8 definition. Click each picture to magnify.
