Mont Vully, Saturday, 3rd November 2007

Isobel and I travelled from Geneva to Sugiez in the Canton of Fribourg to climb Mont Vully—a veritable hill when compared to many Swiss mountains. Vully sits between three lakes: the Lac de Morat (Murtensee), the Lac de Neuchâtel, and the Lac de Bienne (Bielersee). We could only see the Lac de Morat from the summit of the mountain: the others were covered in a heavy mist which impeded visibility.

Autumnal • A tree clings to the bank of the canal in Sugiez, in the Canton of Fribourg.
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Sugiez • Looking towards the small town of Sugiez from the vineyards which are located at the base of Mont Vully.
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Vines in Autumn • Vines at the base of Mont Vully.
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Mont Vully • The vineyards at the base of Mont Vully, in the Canton of Fribourg.
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Vineyards • Vines at the base of Mont Vully.

An example of When Bad Things Happen To Good Panoramas: this photograph is formed from three separate frames stitched together; however, I didn’t lock the exposure correctly and so the exposure changed for the third (right-most) frame. Hence the slight aberration of colour in the sky from left to right.
Autumn Farm Grass Panorama Photostitch Panorama Trees Vine rhjf 20071103 9331 merged
Autumn colours • Vines at the base of Mont Vully.
Autumn Farm Grass Trees Vine rhjf 20071103 9338
Looking through the trees • Looking up at the autumnal leaves as we pass through a wooded area of Mont Vully.
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Autumn leaf
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Yellow leaves
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Autumn trees • Towards the summit of Mont Vully.
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Autumn • Towards the summit of Mont Vully.

Panorama formed from four frames stitched together.
Autumn Field Grass Hill Mist Panorama Photostitch Panorama Trees rhjf 20071103 9363 merge
Ascending Mont Vully
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Autumn trees • Towards the summit of Mont Vully.
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Autumn mist • Towards the summit of Mont Vully. There was a mist in the middle-distance the whole time we were climbing Mont Vully.
Autumn Field Grass Hill Mist Trees rhjf 20071103 9372
Yellow leaves
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From the top of Mont Vully • Looking south-east from the summit of Mont Vully towards the Lac de Morat (Murtensee).
Autumn Hill Lac de Morat Lake Mist Murtensee Trees View rhjf 20071103 9376
From the top of Mont Vully • Looking south-east from the summit of Mont Vully towards the Lac de Morat (Murtensee).
Autumn Hill Lac de Morat Lake Mist Murtensee Sculpture Trees View rhjf 20071103 9378
From the top of Mont Vully • Looking south-east from the summit of Mont Vully towards the Lac de Morat (Murtensee). This curious sculpture apes the surrounding trees.
Autumn Hill Lac de Morat Lake Mist Murtensee Sculpture Trees View rhjf 20071103 9381
From the top of Mont Vully • Looking south-east from the summit of Mont Vully towards the Lac de Morat (Murtensee).
Autumn Hill Lac de Morat Lake Mist Murtensee Sculpture Trees View rhjf 20071103 9382
Lac de Morat • Looking towards the Lac de Morat (Murtensee) from the top of Mont Vully; on the other side of the Lake is the town of Murten (Morat in French), formally the first German-speaking town as you move east through Switzerland.
Autumn Grass Hill Lac de Morat Lake Mist Murtensee Trees View rhjf 20071103 9391
From the top of Mont Vully • Looking south-east from the summit of Mont Vully towards the Lac de Morat (Murtensee).
Autumn Grass Hill Lac de Morat Lake Mist Murtensee Trees View rhjf 20071103 9399
Evening mists on Mont Vully • As we descended Mont Vully, a mist descended over the hill-side. It was time to go home.
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Mont Vully • Mists and the late-afternoon sun at the summit of Mont Vully.

Five different exposures blended together and then tone-mapped in Photomatix Pro. This was a difficult photo to tone-map, not least because my most under-exposed photo still had blown highlights from the sun. There were a number of interesting interpretations of the HDR, but this is the one I’m sticking with for now.
Autumn Grass HDR multipleexposure Hill Lac de Morat Lake Mist Murtensee Trees rhjf 20071103 9386 hdr
Sunset on Mont Vully • The sun was setting behind the summit of Mont Vully as we descended back to Sugiez for our return train to Fribourg and Geneva.

Five different exposures blended together and then tone-mapped in Photomatix Pro. This time I was lacking some detail in my shadows!
Autumn Grass HDR multipleexposure Sunset Trees rhjf 20071103 9405 hdr

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