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It was another warm day up in the mountains and the snow on the ski slopes was getting slushier, so Alan decided to go out on his bike for part of the morning. I went out onto the area of grass in front of the chalet to play with my cameras and again take pictures of the mountain range across the valley. I am afraid you will get sick of this view. First are some taken with the infrared camera and converted to monochrome, just in Lightroom. The rest are taken in colour with three pictures of Hettie, Queen of the Mountains, basking in the sunshine. There was a black redstart buzzing about around us which I managed to take a very poor picture of. After lunch we went for yet another walk in the woods above the house and again could not proceed far without encountering fallen trees and landslips blocking our way. There were more crocuses and fungi to photograph and I even managed a couple of camera movement pictures. ...

Driving south from Langres we came at last into the mountains. We were booked to have dinner with some friends of ours who live in Montchavin, a ski village in the Vanoise. Derek, Steff and their two children Emily and Jacob live in a chalet at the highest point in Montchavin and have a stunning view over Les Arcs and the Tarentaise valley with the Mont Blanc massif providing a backdrop. We were a little early to meet them so we stopped by a bridge next to the river and I did a couple of ICM shots. I was then captivated by a view which turned out to be a real chocolate box number. The rest of the photos are pictures of the scene from outside Derek's house, taken around sunrise the next day using a 24-70mm and a 70-200mm lenses, including a panorama stitched from 7 pictures. Mont Blanc was usually shrouded in cloud but peeped out for the panorama. I have included a couple of monochrome conversions.