This is Mont Blanc. It was very windy on top (I suspect it is windy there most of the time). We were lucky that we were above the clouds as it was raining at Chamonix. An unforgettable experience.
Thanks for all the votes and comments. I did not expect the peak of Europe to become my new peak score :)
[Oct. 20th, 2013 04:03:12 PM]
I really love the sunlight on the snow picked up by the wind! And everything that is majestic like the top of the Alps! :)
[Oct. 22nd, 2013 01:13:14 AM]
I did not mention the novel above - I may have read it when I was at school as I remember the title and the author but judging by the reviews, I would not have liked it nor understood then. To me this image is about the grandeur of the Alps where the novel takes place, with their majesty and the constant underlying anxiety of the moving snow lifted by the ever present wind. While this may not relate directly to the main character of the novel in a literal way, it may touch it on the spiritual and symbolic level. The image might also reflect Thomas Mann's writing style as the reviewers mention on this Web page:
//www.goodreads.com/book/show/88077.The_Magic_Mountain
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Just to make it clear - I did not climb Mont Blanc! I just took a cable car and took photos from the viewing platform! :)
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Beautiful picture! How difficult is it to climb Mont Blanc? I want to do it. My only experience so far is Kilimanjaro but I have the climbing bug now! Congratulations on an awesome win!
Absolutely gorgeous. Stunning. Beautiful! I'm not a landscape person, but this is so lovely! As to the novel, I don't know it, but from the wikipedia summary, it works for me. It seems more hopeful and beautiful than the dreary sanatorium, but it sounds like the mountains recur often, so I'll buy it. :)
Fantastic detail and a truly breathtaking capture.
on one hand i'm happy that i did not have to climb this high to get this image myself (terrified of heights), and that i'm able to see this view; on the other hand i'm terribly jealous that I cannot show this off to friends and family and say "look at this amazing image that I took".
definitely a favorite and a wishlist, this deserves to up on a wall (many walls, really).
a 10 from me.
i truly hope that this image was taken within the date range for the challenge as it would be an absolute shame if it wasn't
If this is the view from the sanatorium, I might change my easy chair around! Just kidding!
What a zoomorphic mountain. Quite amazing. It's a St Bernard dog.
Greta shot. I might have preferred for this challenge a different type of image, but this is a good landscape
7
Spectacular image! The details are wonderful and it’s impressive how non of the whites I can see are blown despite the details available in the shadows. 8.
At least this image comes close to a representing the location of the novel, in the mountains of Davos, Switzerland. It might be better to have related it to the story but we can't have everything. The image is otherworldly to most of us who can never experience first hand such a scene. The incredible beauty is very wall captured and would rate a 10 if quality were the only criteria. But as a visual representation inspired by the novel, not the title of the novel, it rates an 8.
Pretty spectacular! I really like he motion in the blowing snow and clouds, and deep contrast in the sky. Having only read the synopsis, the tie to the story is not great but it is there. 8
Lovely shot!
The title is fitting. The colors are wonderful. There is a "soft" quality to the snow, but still a sharper quality to the edgy mountains. Very well done.
Magic shot, hard to beat this as a majestic scene, so I'm guessing top ten if not the winner. Fits your novel title well, no real negatives because it exudes overwhelming wonderment. If you post processed a lot well done, if straight from camera, even better. 7.
Holy smokes, man! This is beautiful! How majestic and MAGIC indeed! You nailed this shot, and what a challenge it mustve been to capture the tonal range! Top 3 no doubt!
This is gorgeous! Where the heck are you? Wonderful drama and processing.
Works well with the book, which not only takes PLACE in the Alps (Davos, if I recall correctly) but use the METAPHOR of mountains at several levels as it wends its elusive way towards a conclusion.
Well done, an 8 for now (I sort my highest votes up when I am done)
6...seems like an easy way out...more an easy representation of a title than a novel...a novel so full of other possible images than this. But this is lovely in it's own right.
I haven't read the book, though you certainly evoke the title. Dramatic glowing light and the snow seems to be rising up as though alive. Competently composed. 6
Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann
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