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Matterhorn


Matterhorn
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Copyright: Ron Franklin (ron-franklin) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 239 W: 104 N: 485] (5373)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-03-06
Categories: Nature
Camera: Canon EOS 350D, Canon 17-55 F2.8 IS USM
Exposure: f/5.6, 1/800 seconds
More Photo Info: [view]
Photo Version: Original Version
Theme(s): Snowy Mountains [view contributor(s)]
Date Submitted: 2007-03-09 14:05
Viewed: 738
Points: 20
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Fresh back from our break to Switzerland this shot taken through the window of the train that runs from Zermatt to Gornergrat some 3059m above. loads more pictures to come.

The Matterhorn (Italian: Monte Cervino, French: Mont Cervin or Le Cervin) is perhaps the most familiar mountain in the European Alps. On the border between Switzerland and Italy, it towers over the Swiss village of Zermatt and the Italian village Breuil-Cervinia in the Val Tournanche. The mountain derives its name from the German words matt, meaning valley or meadow, and horn, which means peak.[1]

The Matterhorn has four faces, facing the four compass points, with the north and south faces meeting to form a short east-west summit ridge. The faces are steep, and only small patches of snow and ice cling to them; regular avalanches send the snow down to accumulate on the glaciers at the base of each face. The Hörnli ridge of the northeast (in the center of the view from Zermatt) is the usual climbing route.

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Hi Ron.
Very nice landscape,excellent colours and POV.Well done.
Best Regards
TFS

* Piotr *

This is a magic photo of a magic mountain Ron!
The composition is superb and so is everything else. A lovely scene and you certainly appear to have made the best of it.
Congratulations on a fine picture!
Bill

merhaba ron
wonderful winter picture.wonderful depth and mountains.well done.
best regards.
gürkan akçakır.

Wow...beautiful it looks like a postcard. Its really perfect, I like the trees and the closer bank framing the photo with the massive Matterhorn in the background. Amazing shot. TFS
Donna:o)

Beautiful Ron, a gem.
Great POV, composition and detail.
Picture postcard shot.
regards Mark

interesting pov,what a cool looking mountain! its a good shot,tfs

hi ron
cool you went to switzerland.:)
I like the backround mountain is sort of faded away .I bet you were shivering out there.
pearl

Hi Ron,
Fabulous landscape, well composed. Clear DOF. In black and white this would be reminiscent of an Ansell Adams (except wrong country!). Hope you had a great time away, looking forward to hearing the stories.
The Doris

Hi Ron,

Flippin'eck mate, your getting around arn't ya :) Hope ya had a nice time out there Ron.

The picture is excellent mate especially as it's taken through a train window, the trains must be pretty clean out there! Or you've got hold of one of those special train window filters :)))

Last time I took a picture out through a train window was on the way to the 2006 Open golf @ Hoylake... All I got was a picture of some splattered mud and some looney attempting to ride the trains door plates leaving Manor Road :(

Beautiful shot of the Matterhorn

John

Bonjour,
Belle carte postale bien réussie.
Bonne journée.
clnaef

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