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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #60 on: January 03, 2008, 10:46:42 PM »
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Gorgeous photos, as always!
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #61 on: January 03, 2008, 11:20:56 PM »
I've said it before and I'll say it again - I have to see the mountains before I get too old and my knees work
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #62 on: January 04, 2008, 04:09:22 AM »
Gosh Cliff

What aw-inspiring pics.
Certainly lifted me out of the doom and gloom of starting back to full work today---in fact so motivating i've decided to head away into the hills again tomorrow.

Cheers dave
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #63 on: January 04, 2008, 07:02:43 PM »
Many thanks Fermi, Chloe, Mark and Dave,
Is it too soon for another batch?  Never mind, you are getting them.....!    :-\ :-\

First Set of Gallery Nine....     (The observant among you will note that Gallery Eight follows Gallery Nine...I'm from Lancashire...that should explain it)!

1 Refuge.jpg
 2 Pulsatilla alpina duo.jpg
 3 Thlaspi rotundifolium.jpg
 4 Cinque Torre.jpg
 5 Potentilla.jpg
 6 Primula close-up.jpg
 7 Potentilla view.jpg
 8 Potentilla ultra-close.jpg
 9 Pulsatilla vernalis scene.jpg
 10 Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia.jpg
« Last Edit: January 04, 2008, 08:19:48 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #64 on: January 04, 2008, 07:08:42 PM »
Second Set of Gallery Nine....

 11 Pulsatilla alpina apiifolia.jpg
 12 Roadside campanula.jpg
 13 Rock scene.jpg
 14 Salvia full plant.jpg
 15 Santa Croce cross.jpg
 16 Saponaria ocymoides.jpg
 17 Saxifaga.jpg
 18 Sella scene with rose and bee.jpg
 19 Thlaspi.jpg
 20 Sue under peaks.jpg

« Last Edit: January 04, 2008, 08:20:08 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #65 on: January 04, 2008, 07:14:43 PM »
Set Three of Gallery Nine....
21 Trollius view.jpg
 22 Viola.jpg
 23 White blue campanula.jpg
 24 View from Cinque Torre.jpg
 25 Rocks and Peaks.jpg
 26 Sella scene.jpg
 27 Searching for Eritrichium nanum.jpg
 28 Thlaspi and screes.jpg
 29 Trollius into the mist.jpg
 30 View from Cinque Torre.jpg

« Last Edit: January 04, 2008, 08:20:29 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #66 on: January 04, 2008, 07:19:43 PM »
Fourth and final Set of Gallery Nine..........Perversely Gallery Eight will follow when a couple of small amendments have been made....

 31 Phyteuma nigrum view.jpg
 32 Paris quadrifolia.jpg
 33 Loiseleuria procumbens ultra-close.jpg
 34 Gentiana acaulis close.jpg
 35 Dolomite cows.jpg
 36 Cypripedium.jpg
 37 Beetle on lily.jpg
 38 Pulsatilla very close.jpg
 39 Bloom scene.jpg
 40 Arnica heads.jpg

« Last Edit: January 04, 2008, 08:20:53 PM by Maggi Young »
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #67 on: January 04, 2008, 07:26:37 PM »
Does the good sun and clear air help make such excellent photos? Remind us what camera you use please
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #68 on: January 04, 2008, 08:13:44 PM »
So many gorgeous pix to choose from Cliff, but that Pulsatilla on pic 38 beats them all for me !
Great show !
Thanks again for sharing.
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #69 on: January 04, 2008, 08:28:46 PM »
Thanks Luc and Mark,
Glad you are enjoying them....many more to come...if the SRGC memory bank can take the strain....

Mark....all the images from the Dolomites were taken with a swivel lens 3.4 megapixel Nikon Coolpix 995 (an 'old' camera in comparison to today's all-singing, all-dancing models)....I have added a Nikon D80 to my camera bag now but will continue to use the 995 at Shows and for 'on the ground' close-ups.  Obviously the clear air and the sun will assist any photographer but it doesn't ALWAYS shine in the mountains and many of these shots were taken on overcast days.
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #70 on: January 04, 2008, 10:14:04 PM »
....And now for something completely similar....Gallery Eight!

First Set of Gallery Eight.....
1 Sella scene.jpg
 2 Sella scene.jpg
 3 Through cable car window.jpg
 4 Thlaspi on scree.jpg
 5 The Pinnacles.jpg
 6 Superb Dolomite view.jpg
 7 Sunlit Rhodothamnus chamaecistus.jpg
 8 Sue videoing.jpg
 9 Silene view.jpg
 10 Silene dioica.jpg

« Last Edit: January 05, 2008, 11:25:56 AM by Ian Y »
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #71 on: January 04, 2008, 10:18:31 PM »
Set Two of Gallery Eight.....

11 Sheath.jpg
 12 Silene mat.jpg
 13 Searching for Eritrichium nanum.jpg
 14 Sella scene.jpg
 15 Trollius scene.jpg
 16 Silene cushion.jpg
 17 View from Cinque Torre.jpg
 18 Roadside campanula.jpg
 19 Santa Croce.jpg
 20 Sedum.jpg
« Last Edit: January 05, 2008, 11:26:21 AM by Ian Y »
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #72 on: January 04, 2008, 10:22:25 PM »
Third Set of Gallery Eight....

21 Up to peaks.jpg
 22 Salvia close.jpg
 23 Riverside walk.jpg
 24 View from Cinque Torre.jpg
 25 Wood carvings Selva.jpg
 26 View to glacier.jpg
 27 Sella.jpg
 28 Sella scene.jpg
 29 Snow hikers.jpg
 30 Smelling daphne.jpg
« Last Edit: January 05, 2008, 11:26:46 AM by Ian Y »
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #73 on: January 04, 2008, 10:26:13 PM »
Fourth (and final) Set of Gallery Eight.....

31 Sassongher.jpg
 32 Silene view.jpg
 33 Silene acaulis damaged cushion.jpg
 34 Saxifraga oppositifolia.jpg
 35 Trollius scene.jpg
 36 Seedheads.jpg
 37 Silene in rocks.jpg
 38 Tragopagon seedhead.jpg
 39 Very pale salvia.jpg
 40 Agordo.jpg
« Last Edit: January 05, 2008, 11:27:33 AM by Ian Y »
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Re: The Dolomites
« Reply #74 on: January 04, 2008, 11:24:34 PM »
Cliff, after looking these 80 pics I am totally without words.
It is breathtaking!! I hope I can sleep, will need (and take) a drink first!
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