Des paysage comme on n'en vois plus souvent en Belgique et c'est bien dommage......c'est un peu comme mon pays qui disparaîtra dans un proche avenir..... Superbe paysage d'hiver.

Enjoyed the new pictures in your gallery.Allways a plasure

C'est absolument magnifique. Cette image des Vosges, que je connais bien, me donne envie d'y retourner faire du sky de fond. Excellente composition. Tres belles lumieres. J'adore le rendu des branches. BRAVO!

Une belle composition en triangle avec une gamme complète de nuances et un piqué élevé partout (quand même, l'image pop-up n'est pas très grande, moins de 1000px de large). J'apprécie aussi l'absence de dominantes sur la surface neigeuse, ce qui est souvent difficile à réaliser, même avec un appareil doté d'une balance des blancs performante et d'un post-traitement dans Photoshop.

This is really outstanding...

Snow does make things lovely looking. Wonderful shot.

WOW!!!! i am in AWE WHAT Wintery magic!!! GORGEOUS!!!!!!

absolutely gorgeous capture ... we are having a major snow storm today and tomorrow ..yuck a long one at that ... so Monday hope fully I can find something this beautiful to photgraph... that may be impossible ..this is fantastic !

C'est tout simplement splendide de blancheur, magnifique et superbe sont également les mots qui me viennent à l'esprit en regardant ce cliché.

Pristine beauty! The snow traces the branches so wonderfully, and sun just seems to dance through the snow covered branches!

Là, ou tu veux me rendre jalouse ou triste... quelle splendeur cette neige vosgienne, les sapins ont une façon de "s'embrasser', quelle espièglerie... plus sérieusement, ta PDV est géniale, j'adore Jean-Luc... et tu t'en doutes!;-)

Excellent photo.

Ouaaouhh ! Magnifique ! très belle lumière et j'aime bcp cette composition avec le mouvement des branches qui reviennent vers le chemin. Superbe et bravo Jean-Luc

Wonderful and fantastic winter photo!!!

Wonderful and fine gradations. Phantasique!

Excellent capture... great shot... impresive context! Hugs!

Love the composition. I feel like I am there. Brrrrr!

Pristine, archetypal beauty! What a picture. Simply beautiful!

This is one of your best Jean-Luc, a truly wonderful photo that captures the essence of winter beautifully. Definately a fave of mine. Tony :-)

Beautiful!!!!!!

a beautiful and stunning capture!!!!

tasty picture of nature, love it

Superbe photographie cousin... (FAV) Un petit texte pour toi...Anglais mais je suis certain que tu peut lire :) Cool Stars Have Different Mix of Life-Forming Chemicals Life on Earth is thought to have arisen from a hot soup of chemicals. Does this same soup exist on planets around other stars? A new study from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope hints that planets around stars cooler than our sun might possess a different mix of potentially life-forming, or "prebiotic," chemicals. Astronomers used Spitzer to look for a prebiotic chemical, called hydrogen cyanide, in the planet-forming material swirling around different types of stars. Hydrogen cyanide is a component of adenine, which is a basic element of DNA. DNA can be found in every living organism on Earth. The researchers detected hydrogen cyanide molecules in disks circling yellow stars like our sun -- but found none around cooler and smaller stars, such as the reddish-colored "M-dwarfs" and "brown dwarfs" common throughout the universe. "Prebiotic chemistry may unfold differently on planets around cool stars," said Ilaria Pascucci, lead author of the new study from Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. The study will appear in the April 10 issue of the Astrophysical Journal. Young stars are born inside cocoons of dust and gas, which eventually flatten to disks. Dust and gas in the disks provide the raw material from which planets form. Scientists think the molecules making up the primordial ooze of life on Earth might have formed in such a disk. Prebiotic molecules, such as adenine, are thought to have rained down to our young planet via meteorites that crashed on the surface. "It is plausible that life on Earth was kick-started by a rich supply of molecules delivered from space," said Pascucci. Could the same life-generating steps take place around other stars? Pascucci and her colleagues addressed this question by examining the planet-forming disks around 17 cool and 44 sun-like stars using Spitzer's infrared spectrograph, an instrument that breaks light apart, revealing signatures of chemicals. The stars are all about one to three million years old, an age when planets are thought to be growing. The astronomers specifically looked for ratios of hydrogen cyanide to a baseline molecule, acetylene. They found that the cool stars, both the M-dwarf stars and brown dwarfs, showed no hydrogen cyanide at all, while 30 percent of the sun-like stars did. "Perhaps ultraviolet light, which is much stronger around the sun-like stars, may drive a higher production of the hydrogen cyanide," said Pascucci. The team did detect their baseline molecule, acetylene, around the cool stars, demonstrating that the experiment worked. This is the first time that any kind of molecule has been spotted in the disks around cool stars. The findings have implications for planets that have recently been discovered around M-dwarf stars. Some of these planets are thought to be large versions of Earth, the so-called super Earths, but so far none of them are believed to orbit in the habitable zone, where water would be liquid. If such a planet is discovered, could it sustain life? Astronomers aren't sure. M-dwarfs have extreme magnetic outbursts that could be disruptive to developing life. But, with the new Spitzer results, they have another piece of data to consider: these planets might be deficient in hydrogen cyanide, a molecule thought to have eventually become a part of us. Said Douglas Hudgins, the Spitzer program scientist at NASA Headquarters, Washington, "Although scientists have long been aware that the tumultuous nature of many cool stars might present a significant challenge for the development of life, this result begs an even more fundamental question: Do cool star systems even contain the necessary ingredients for the formation of life? If the answer is no then questions about life around cool stars become moot." Other authors include Daniel Apai of the Space Telescope Science Institute, Baltimore, Md.; Kevin Luhman of Pennsylvania State University, University Park; Thomas Henning and Jeroen Bouwman of the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy, Germany; Michael Meyer of the University of Arizona, Tucson; Fred Lahuis of the SRON Netherlands Institute for Space Research, the Netherlands; and Antonella Natta of the Arcetri Astrophysical Observatory, Italy. Spitzer Space Telescope Release Images

Assurément, très beau, ce paysage bien sûr, et cette prise de vue où tu as su restituer parfaitement tous les contrastes dans la neige et la glace. Je suis un bien piètre photographe, mais j'imagine que ce n'est pas forcément évident alors, Chapeau bas l'artiste ;0) Bravo.

Beautiful shot, well done!

Brilliant gallery to say the very least. Thank you for your comment. I am very aware this is not a dating web site and to be honest i would have no interest in a site like that. I left a comment for that individual pointing out that i am just beginning an interest in photography and only came here to see the work of others. I have no images to upload at this time so i thought i would just up load my own picture not thinking any 1 would have to inform me that this is not the place to look for a date.Oh well live and learn as they say.

I just love fresh now. Well done

Fantastic capture and Marvelous wiev !

Beautiful

Magnificent photo! Can just feel that crisp clean air!