Tag Archives: Lake

May 5 2012

Cervino in the Blue Lake

Mount Cervino’s pyramid  is reflecting in the Blue Lake (Lago Blu – 1918m). The small body of water, surrounded by century-old larch trees, is located on a road stop just before the resort town of Breuil-Cervinia in the Aosta Valley, a region in the North-West of Italy. The lake is fed by springs and therefore always crystal clear.

Mount Cervino (4,478m, 14,690 ft, better known as Matterhorn outside Italy) is part of the Pennine Alps and is one of the highest peaks in the Alps. The mountain overlooks the town of Zermatt in the canton of Valais to the north-east and Breuil-Cervinia in the Aosta Valley to the south.

Nov 3 2011

Fall colors at the “Englischer Garten” of Munich

The Englischer Garten, German for “English Garden”, is a large public park in the centre of Munich, Germany, stretching from the city centre to the northeastern city limits. 

With an area of 3.7 km2 the Englischer Garten is one of the world’s largest urban public parks, larger than New York’s Central Park. I took the images during the last long week end capturing the splendid autumn foliage of the park.

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Nov 2 2011

Swans in the harbour of Lindau

The image above, taken during the last long week end,  shows the famous entrance of the harbour of Lindau with the the lion sculpture, together with the Bavarian lighthouse.

The beautiful city is located near the meeting point of the Austrian, German and Swiss borders on Lake Constance.

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Oct 13 2011

The Moon and Jupiter meet over the lake

This evening I traveled again to the Candia Lake to capture the close encounter between the almost full Moon and planet Jupiter. On the picture above the lovely pair is framed by an arch of plants whereas below it appears together with a nice gazebo overlooking the lake.

 

Pictures of the rising red Moon taken a bit earlier can be seen here:

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