The topic of week 39 in Sari’s photo Projekt 52:
Love
Lessons in love
When will you ever learn
Lessons in love
When there’s nowhere left to turn
(Level 42, “Lessons In Love”)
…or also…
Hey boy where did you get it from?
Hey boy where did you go?
I learned my passion
In the good old fashioned school of lover boys
(Queen, “Good Old Fashioned Lover Boy”)
Alright, this is the last photo series from my Montreux holiday, a mixture of various topics.
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Loading ...A look at the sky shows more cloud formations, a parhelion and a steaming sail boat: 
When sunny skies break through behind the clouds
I wish it could last forever…
A fork in the lake (thought these things only exist in roads…) in Vevey, in front of the Alimentarium, a food museum:
A few buildings: My hotel, the Eden Palace au Lac, and the restaurant Le Palais Oriental:
The Montreux Palace and the Grand Hotel:
Congress center with Auditorium Stravinski and the old market hall:
Through the old town, we reach a church, the late gothic Temple St-Vincent:
From its terrace we have a nice view of the lake and parts of the city:
Now quickly a few animals who also seem to enjoy the sun…
…before we say farewell with a postcard view:
Sunsets at a lake have their own magic, that applies to Montreux too, of course…
Ships are still running when it’s getting dark:
The old market hall (Marché couvert) from 1890 – the lighting is probably more modern:
From Friday night after the shows – taken with the small camera, for as I mentioned I didn’t want to carry the large one with me during the concerts, and this was the only night when the lake was quiet enough for larger reflections:
At the end, a few “strange” stripes from Sunday – surely some conspriacy theorists got their own ideas of that – and an almost boring cloudless evening on Monday:
(via Bad Astronomy)And the Simpsons intro built with Lego (via Wil Wheaton):
The Chillon Castle (Château de Chillon) is located on the shore of Lake Geneva near Montreux, Switzerland. The castle consists of 25 independent buildings that were gradually connected and now form a single whole.
The oldest parts of the castle have not been definitively dated, but the first written record of the castle is in 1160 or 1005.
And since then, there have been many additions and reconstructions on this Château de Chillon (official site) that’s the topic of today’s photo collection.
As with the flowers yesterday, you can also view all the photos in the Flickr set in the same medium size (and click to get the large size, of course), whereas I’m using different sizes here and add a few words, too. If it’s too much at once, if you’d prefer more small thumbnails or, on the contrary, more larger photos, please speak up…
After the wide-angle view above, let’s have a look from northwest and southeast:
And now with a ship in the front – and the ugly stilted highway in the back; as well as from 300m higher and with maximum tele zoom (and post-processing to remove the haze):
Let’s get inside – across the bridge that replaced the drawbridge in the 18th century:
A few looks into and from the courts (not in the order of the tour):
The gothic cellar vault, part-time jail, and a cellar with a small opening in the top:
There was a photo exhibition in the coat of arms hall, and I was glad I had that wide-angle lens in the chapel:
State-of-the-art cooking equipment and the latest in men’s fashion can also be found in the castle:
On the left a mechanism for the drawbridge or the gate, on the right the view tall people like me (1.90m = 6 ft 3 in) get in many places without bending down:
A bed, a chair that doesn’t look very comfortable, and a 15th century coffered ceiling:
An old wall painting, a barred passageway, and a crenel made for firearms:
Two pictures combined with HDR tone mapping (which I have yet to practice…) from photos with varying exposure:
And at the end panoramic views from the keep, the highest tower, to the northwest and southeast – and downwards:
