While in Pau with Olivier we walked through this beauitful garden. I took several pictures of it but then here were eleven ducklings. So amazingly carefree and I even got to see a couple fall off that rock into the water (one of the three swimming had just done so). After a few minutes we left and let the little kids get a bit closer. The ducklings had attracted quite a crowd.

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Sweet castle next to a lake, I really loved the atmosphere in the perspective. Otherwise it is a very basic and straight forward photo.

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In the middle of a very small village nestled in the mountains there were sheep, close to fifty, walking in the street on their way to a new pasture. The mountains are still cold and have a lot of snow, so the grazing animals have been forced to stay down in the valley a bit longer. The sheep wrangler doesn’t seem to mind.

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With boughts of hail dampening our spirits slightly I turned to prayer. Praying that the thunderstorms the valley over wouldn’t spill over, and God responded by providing blue sky for our walk down the mountain and the rest of the day. It was amazing. This shot was taken looking back on our way down the mountain and I really liked how the path through the snow winds around.

For post-processing there is more black and white work, as well as some contrast work to bring out the path more in the forground.

I climbed this mountain with olivier and i had on really bad shoes (which by this point were very wet). This little cabane is where we had lunch before walking around near the summit (never made it… the snow was a few feet deep and we weren’t in winter gear) before heading back down.

Slight post-processing with some levels adjustment and a little black and white added to the majority of the photo (sans sky). Comments welcome!