Great shots and colours - I don’t know how you do it but they have this
familiar subtle tones of slides of my tester years :-)
In any case, a place we must also get to and hike for ourselves :-)
Thanks for sharing
Amities to Marnie too
Philippe & Alice
> Le 5 févr. 2017 à 20:41, Jim Nichols <jhnichols@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> a écrit :
>
> Beautiful scenery! We will forgive you for coming up short on flutterbys,
> though the one shot you included was very nice.
>
> Jim Nichols
> Tullahoma, TN USA
>
> On 2/5/2017 1:33 PM, Mike Gordon via olympus wrote:
>> One of our last hiking destinations was Lobhornhütte--one of the mountain
>> huts. We planned to have lunch there.
>> It was rather warm on the way up, until we got more elevation that is.
>> Here are my hiking companions on the way:
>>
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-jTVmf2T/A
>>
>>
>> Here we were about a mile or so away:
>>
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-DkhL57c/A
>>
>> View from the picnic table at the hut:
>>
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-q7F289C/A
>>
>> We were short on Swiss francs--arghhh. She kindly accepted dollars, phew.
>> Best barley soup I have ever tasted. I was out of steam and could not abide
>> another meal of trail mix.
>> Recharged and rested we started down and were rewarded with this view:
>>
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-x6r4Kqg/A:
>>
>>
>>
>> Here is one shot from Mürren. We saw a ton of paragliders and they ran a
>> twin paraglider business in Interlaken that was hopping.
>>
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-jCcZP98/A
>>
>> Marnie shot from Stampa near Soglio--more shots to process from that cam and
>> a few more film shots.
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-J89zg7F/A
>>
>> A few from Soglio:
>>
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-cX3Rfvn/A
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-f35LBqZ/A
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-rSV6bhJ/A
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-N4TJLdw/A Dr. Flash would
>> have scolded me to use a bit a fill flash-- would have filled the eye
>> sockets and provided a nice catchlight.
>>
>> I did bring a Flutterby kit and there are some spectacular Swiss critters.
>> I had only a very limited knowledge of what was flying and where. After the
>> long days on the trails had no takers
>> to go with me chasing critters. I vowed not to return w/o a decent shot or
>> dusk whatever came first. Only one usable shot of a fairly common one--not
>> very cooperative as it was warm and they were very skittish.
>>
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-qm3ZPHK/A
>>
>> I returned to find the twins appearing rather stressed:
>> http://www.olyendomike.com/Switzerland-2016/i-ntTnLXM/A
>> I am not very good at such activities while traveling, but suspect that may
>> improve with time.
>>
>> Marnie dearly loves maps, BTW.
>>
>> Hope you find one or two of interest, Mike
>>
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