Clouds... or angels?

Mont Aiguille, in the french region of Vercors, close to Grenoble,

looks quite imponent, and unaccessible. In the middle age this went to

the point of thinking that angels might use it as a hide-away. In 1492

King Charles VIII then ordered the mountain to be climbed to check if

any angel was around... guess the result. Still, this was one of the

first expeditions organised to climb a mountain, of the siege style

which won Everest some four centuries and a half later.

A couple of months ago we gave it a try as well and just found some

feathers... Once down, the dancing clouds at sunset did remind me of

angels, though.

If you get a chance to visit Thessaly in Greece you would enjoy the Meteora (look it up), though they are not alpine.

I have a problem with a framing tonal merger like this, since it is impossible to know where the base of the image starts. That said, I would enjoy seeing this image as part of a series. I'm especially intrigued by the left profile and its framing by trees on the slope...

Gary,

so far I've mainly seen Greece from the water, sailing, but a day I'll pay a visit to those mountains and monasteries.

As for the non-black frame, I guess you've a point, even though there is a small difference in tone which should still be visible, but far from me the wish of starting any row about calibrations and the alike.

The square crop which you propose has sure more artistic merits than the original, which wanted to show the full supposedly unclimbable objects, with angelic clouds. I have to think about getting something out of that. Thanks for having taken the timw off Britney to look into that ;)

Two final remarks. As for a series, I've other three, four picture which are more or less decent, taken during the climb and once down. I'll try and add them to this page within a few days. As for the left hand side profile, an added interest is for the variety in rock texture and colour...which is explained by the massive amounts of debris below the thing: a slice of mountain just came down.

Thanks for your time. Comments on any other picture of the "mountain" family of folders will be very much appreciated.

Cheers, s.