Small Brook in Finges, a photo from Valais, West

Photographer's Note

Small brook, circulating through the Finges Forest. Simple at first sight... but however filled of mysteries, complexities. Taking life on the top of the montain, coming to die in the arm of the Rhone, its brother much larger than him.

The forest of Finges is crossed by small torrents and brooks. One of them, B�ttenbach, lodges a small family of beavers. They are the gardeners of the forest. No one can better only one beaver manage the stoppings which enable him to arrange personal swimming pools where he likes to play and which, more important, dissimulate the subaqueous entry of its burrow. Does water inflate? The beaver withdraws some parts of its stopping to better let it pass. It drop? Here are which reinflates its work and seals it. As for the trees! The beaver kills you with few blows of teeth an immense pine. Admittedly not for its enormous trunk, but for grown again and growths which soon will flash back of the ground and which will compose a small more tender and delicious good to him.

On the edges of the Rhone, between the ponds and the hills of Finges, one finds the richest concentration in biodiversity of Switzerland.

On a side, the mountain. Other, the Rhone. Twelve thousand years ago, the mountain was split, a terrible crumbling crossed the river. And nature created Finges. The blocks of stone became hills. Between them were born from the ponds. This area of 52 km2 is next to out of 7 km left bank of the "wild" Rhone and its water not channeled between Leuk and Sierre.

Dogs, fishermen, bathers are banished: here only the delicate pulsations of nature should reign, a whole microcosmic life. Where the commun run does not see that vulgar strolls in forest, the guides, them, by which it is worth the sorrow to be accompanied at the time of an excursion in the heart of Finges, read in nature as in a large open book.

All the zone, in a true natural mosaic, alternates the fertile hollows thus surrounding the ponds and the grounds "steppe", thin and fragile, roots and rocks quickly exposed by erosion... At each zone, its adapted environment, dragonflies or butterflies, cicadas and astragales of Montpellier, high pines or pubescent oaks. Elsewhere, it would be necessary to cross the Alps to meet similar diversity!

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carper (96) 2004-01-04 5:30

Louy,what can I say?

Beautiful !!!!!!! Great colours, great composition, great photo, great, great. Bravo Louy, very well done. I like this one.

lemon_logix (1054) 2004-01-04 5:31

nice. the colors blend in perfectly.

papagolf21 (152607) 2004-01-04 5:33

Les petits ruisseaux forment les grandes rivi鑽es et de bien belles photos, celle-ci en particulier.
Note tr鑚 d騁aill馥 et instructive.
Tr鑚 bien, Isabelle.

wtolyz (20) 2004-01-04 5:49

I like the colors in this picture. Nice eye.

emax (920) 2004-01-04 6:00

Beautiful different cast between the green brooks and dry grass. The pic its very sharp regarding that is just a scan. Thanks for very exhaustive note. I think that all the Suisse in that moment its covered with the snow?!

Rockyboy (20598) 2004-01-04 6:28

Une superbe photo accompagn馥 d'une note tr鑚 didactique, Isabelle. J'aime bien le cadre form� par l'arbre (pas encore abbatu par les castors) et le ruisseau. Les couleurs sont superbe bien qu'il y ait une petite partie du ruisseau surexpos馥 mais bon, c'est un d騁ail � c� de la richesse en couleurs de cette photo!

cxxl (2684) 2004-01-04 7:07

Gorgeous colours and clarity Isabelle. Nice framing too. One of the best notes I've read aswell ;)

nwoehnl (122) 2004-01-04 7:10

Great nature shot, Isabelle. I like how the water meanders through the frame, and the color contrast between the dry grass and the juicy greens is very well captured. Your notes have always been good, but they keep getting better.

PechePassion (483) 2004-01-04 7:40

Waahhhhhhhh je ne sais pas comment tu fais pour avoir de telles photos mais celle ci est enorme !
Pas la plus impressionante sur la l'effet mais sur le rendu des couleurs .
Tu nous montres exatement ce que l'on pourais voir en ce promenant pres de ce ruisseau , un panel de couleur que seul la nature sauvage sais nous offrir m麥e le liquen est visible !
La photo a 騁� penser et prise au bon moment car meme le ciel reflete dans le ruisseau , surment lors d'une eclaircie.
Tous ca est preuve d'une grande maitrise de la photo .
Bravo

Guzman (577) 2004-01-04 8:00

Quailty capture I love the way you have caught the true colours here, great composition also , excellent notes.... ""pure beauty captured in a single moment"" ...top pro shot, very well presented and shared.

joso (2417) 2004-01-04 8:10

Very well captured colours, the reflexion of the sky gives life to it, to this photo full of "mistery".
Very good note too.

Schultzy (5446) 2004-01-04 9:47

Magnifique prise de vue. L'entrelacement des branches, les couleurs du ruisseau et de son environnement sont splendides. Un charme !
... et merci pour les explications !

Didi (61591) 2004-01-04 9:57

Tr鑚 jolie composition agr駑ent馥 d'u commentaire excellent, sinc鑽ement j'aurai pr馭駻� un cadre moins 駱ais pour mieux profiter de cette vue relaxante.

mortijo (12828) 2004-01-04 11:56

Magnifique Isabelle, une tr鑚 belle composition. La note 'roman fleuve' :-)))) est 馮alement tr鑚 int駻essante. Merci.

PS J'aime beaucoups le cadre.

JAF (0) 2004-01-04 12:06

Encore une photo de qualit� sup駻ieure( piqu� ) � mettre au credit certes du gout tres s皞 de Melle Ilouy , de la belle nature suisse , mais aussi du Nikon D 100?

manny (22032) 2004-01-04 12:15

Very beautiful shot of a very beautiful place. Your composition creates a charming fusion of natural colors and shapes and textures. Very impressive shot!

antopriv (51) 2004-01-04 13:01

I really like the color. You really extract the most of the light.

I think that the frame around distracts more than help visually the picture.

Georges (11185) 2004-01-04 13:30

D’abord bravo pour cette note qui ta donn馥 beaucoup de boulot je pense.
L'image est superbe et le rendu des couleurs tr鑚 joli on y voit m麥e une r馭lexion de ciel dans la partie basse.
Bravo et merci du partage Isabelle

steffleu (1397) 2004-01-04 17:29

Tr鑚 belle photo Ilouy !
Merci !
Faudra bien que j'aille me ballader au bois de Finges un de ces jours !

Clochette (8076) 2004-01-04 17:47

Magnifique ! Les couleurs sont stup馭iantes. Bravo Isabelle.

ninadev (5377) 2004-01-04 18:26

Pas une parcelle de couleur n'a 騁� 馗happ馥 dans cette photo. Possiblement aussi une touche de saturation y a 騁� ajout�, pour donner une photo remarquable de ce petit ruisseau. Composition aussi r騏ssie et bien 駲uilibr馥.

dominique (11414) 2004-01-09 18:57

une tres bonne composition , les couleurs c'est vrai sont tres belles et j'aime le cadrage .

jmb (150) 2004-04-17 5:59

Magnifique isabelle!!! Quel belle palette de couleurs passant par des verts vif,de beaux bruns, des bleus turquoise et j'en passe. La photo parle d'elle m麥e mais, je dois dire que tes commentaires(explications)d'une grande richesse compl鑼e parfaitement. Tu es une vrai source d'inspirations. Je regarde ta photo, je lit les informations; le tout est une belle armonie. Tu es avide d'infos sur ta r馮ion, sur la nature et je ressent chez toi une grande sensibilit馥 par rapport � tout cela. J'en suis presque 駑u... Je ne peux que te dire merci pour tout cela, le reste est un peux plus profond. RESPECT.

nialap (591) 2004-06-19 11:01

Tr鑚 jolie composition avec une belle harmonie des couleurs. Isabelle, tu rends honneur au Valais ! Mon 駱ouse 騁ant Valaisanne, j'y ai fait pousser quelques racines... Merci !