A frozen world is going to melt …
… what new world lies beneath? Pictures shot on a cold winter day on the Shilsee, Canton of Schwyz, Switzerland.
After such cold, winter dusk of Switzerland …
… let’s hope for a warmer dawn in spring …
Random encounters in the snow of the Type II
I run up and down through this white winter land …
… but despite my effort …
… I never manage to find the snow balls this photographer throws at me …
Is he making fun of me ???
From alpha to omega: where does the water flow ?
Here comes the belvedere in front of the hotel we left in part I
Two hydrogens and one oxygen you are,
Two hydrogens and one oxygen you will be.
Warmed up by the first sun rays
Frozen out of the Rhone glacier you will flow,
below the sheet of ice you will carve your way,
through tunnels of blue light you will run away,
gravity will give you the strength,
rock will pave your way down,
down to the pink, salty sea of Camargue.
Up here still a last view on the different states
of your white and blue, solid-liquid soul.
You, frozen water of the Rhone river. Pictures shot with D800 + 70-200 VR-II and 16-35 mm f/4 – click to magnify
Above and below ice pictures: of Buddha and igloos on Titlis, Switzerland
“[…] Suddenly he saw a huge natural statue among the snow covered mountains. It looked like a Buddha! It was wearing a monk’s habit, holding straight its head and body […]”
Do you find it too, as Donghua Li did? Click on the top-right corner blue-arrow on the panorama below, pan (click and move) and zoom (mouse wheel) – panorama option offered by dermandar.com – panorama shot with D800 1/2500 from the shaky Titlis cliff walk !
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The “igloo town” (iglu-dorf) at the Trübsee (Engelberg–Titlis): bar, restaurant and hotel rooms all in ice. Give it a look with ARTBorghi animated pictures on site, click start below.
