Turtmannh by jcv2

Photography • Landscape • posted on Jan 14, 2006

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It's time to go return. While walking back the huge lateral moraine of the glacier (once much bigger) attracts my attention. Pyramids of rocks and pebbles show their teeth, created by erosion that washed away the sandy dust in between. It's remarkable to see the yellowish color of this stuff, the darker rock on the background and les Diablons (as you have seen in Turtmannh

Comments (34)

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nathalie06

5:13AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

;o(((( we are living this wonderful place ???? It was another superb and very interesting serie Jan-Carel Thank you for all the terminology about the glacier. I must print that to take it. Have a wonderful week-end my friend. Hugs.

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tallpindo

5:24AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

"The devil is tryng to sift you", jcv2. This screening violates the "reap it all the wheat and the tare and put it in my barn command." How we love our classifications, our taxonomies and our lists. What else do we have? Around the Great Lakes and th Canadien Shield there are hundres of miles of this described as a "morraine from the edge of the Ice Age." Who can refute tribolytes?

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tmathise

6:00AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

This has been a most incredible series you've been so kind to share. I almost feel as though I've been there to experience it's splendor and grandeur. You've done a most masterful job of documenting a wide variety of images from this most fantastic journey too, thanks for that as well. As always - beautiful work Jan!

BertDes

6:19AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

Excellent capture. Like all of yours. It was a good experience for me.

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hotracer2

7:44AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

Love the variation of colors and surfaces, good shot:):):)..V

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Hedepo

8:03AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

I like these kind of desolated mountain landscapes without any green (even not a red dot LOL), all the different shades of grey with blue sky and some white from the ice! excellent photo, have a nice day!!

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Buffalo1

8:36AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

I know a guy who lives in a moraine valley in Illinois so I know what moraine is. I just didn't know how many kinds there are. It's always an education to look through Jan-Carel's lens. Anyway, this reminds of a landscape from a Sci-Fi movies, except for the beautiful blue sky.

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Coppens

8:59AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

Wonderful capture of this rock-strewn place! Nice contrast with the radiant blue sky!

parb1194

9:19AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

Awesome image shows the effects of tons of ice on the land.

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rayburg

9:46AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

great pic and thanks for the geology lesson..lol.

unike

10:19AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

Thanks for the lesson! Excellent photo, the light is amazing!!

thothbaboon

10:42AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

beautiful texture and quality. this series was wonderful and thank you for sharing it. but one question: how can you upload these pictures if you are in the middle of nowhere? i might be missing something, but if you are hiking in glaciers then there would be no way to upload the pictures. just wondering. thanks for sharing!

soulofharmony

10:53AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

interest perfective and love how you tease with a little skyline and such a wonderful tone of blue !!!!!!

froznlife42

11:49AM | Sat, 14 January 2006

Cool science class. Lots of information today. Fantastic. V

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Punaguy

12:31PM | Sat, 14 January 2006

Ahhh, once again I have learned something new from you! I'm so glad that you have taken the time to explain what we are looking at...although it will take me awhile to get my "moraine's" straightened out. Another excellent image and great use of terminology for us none hikers! Aloha to you JC!

tvernuccio

12:52PM | Sat, 14 January 2006

would be fun to climb up this and check out the view from the top!! nice perspective here, and thanks for explaining the terminology! that helps a lot! i enjoy the beautiful colors and rocks! only thing i wish the clarity was a bit better. perhaps you lost some of that when you converted it? maybe a tiny bit of sharpening would give this a nice boost! then again...perhaps my eyes are a bit blurry this morning!!!! :) i do so much enjoy these natural pyramids! they're beautiful! can't wait to see what lies ahead on the way back! :)

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