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The last week we had quite heavy thunderstorms here in Switzerland. Following a few impressions how it looks here in such moments. The pictures were all taken in the canton of Bern in Switzerland, which is also home to the capital of Switzerland (Bern).
It looks as if on the opposite mountain there is a huge forest fire with all the smoke that then also develops. In reality, it is a sunset scenario behind this mountain, in which the last rays of sunlight shine into the wind-driven clouds.
As some may already know, here in Switzerland we have countless small lakes in the Alps. In these, as in other areas, there are great hikes to be made and when it comes to photography the motif of "Reflections in the lake" is absolutely popular. Following are just three very nice examples with notifications about the locations:
A very sensitive picture (even useful as desktop background) that seems to have been made in heaven with all the "clouds" there in the background. But the story behind it is a little different:
Tiina Törmänen's Image
Tiina Törmänen (Finland) floats through sheets of cloud-like algae in search of fish.
Tiina was thrilled to meet a school of inquisitive European perch on her annual lake snorkel. During the previous three years she had only ever found dead fish. Submerged in the surreal scene, she framed the orange-finned fish flying through clouds of pink-tinged algae.
Although it created a beautiful scene, algal blooms like the one captured here can cause problems for underwater life. A common cause of algal blooms is pollution, most often from fertilizers present in agricultural run-off or sewage. This enriches the water with nutrients, causing the algae to flourish, use up the oxygen in the water, block out sunlight and sometimes produce harmful toxins.
Yet this lake is in the middle of the wilderness, with no conceivable source of pollution. Recently, the summers in Lappland have been unseasonably warm and the lake water has been unusually tepid, which suggests that global warming rather than pollution was behind this algal bloom.
Today something about the Swiss national sport, which we call here in dialect "Schwingen". Since pictures alone are not enough to understand what it's all about, I'll go here in this posting times deeper into the matter.
Some, and this are mostly the best of these athletes (Swiss Wrestlers), are up to 1.90 m and more and weigh partly up to 120 kg and more. The best of them are also trained at the sports school in "Magglingen", which is THE squad forge of many internationally successful athletes from Switzerland.
And the following is a small series of pictures to convey a little bit of the feeling of how it goes to and fro at these wrestling festivals. Deepest Swiss sports culture scene.
