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Heaven’s Door by Pierre-Emmanuel Bourgouin

Heaven’s Door by Pierre-Emmanuel Bourgouin

Tuesday, 30th September 2008

Heaven’s Door
by Pierre-Emmanuel Bourgouin
It must be the highest restaurant in Europe, near the “Mont Blanc”. When I was there, it was so cold my old medium format froze. Only my 20D was in working order! The day before, it was -43 deg. C!!!
Equipment: Canon EOS 20D / Canon 17-85 IS 4.5/5.6
Pierre-Emmanuel Bourgouin
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26 Comments

  1. Katherine Lee Strassburg Says:

    Fantastic! Brrrrr….the crisp blue air and hard stark-white frozen edges counter-balanced by the soft cirrus clouds really tell the story. I can feel my nose hairs freeze as I inhale! This one really sets a mood.

  2. Rick Van Veen Says:

    Cool!

  3. Ariel Ariel Says:

    Wow! What a location!!

  4. Anurag Anurag Says:

    Thank You.
    This is what Earthshots is all about.
    I never knew such a place existed.

    Technically accomplished as well.

  5. Malta Photography Malta Photography Says:

    very effective shot I must say. The color density is perfect and the vividness of the shot is wonderful.

  6. Keith Says:

    Wow! A great shot! Looks more like Hell’s Door to me though. An incredible place that makes ‘Castle Dracula’ look like a holiday destination…brrrr!

    The 20d held up well under the circumstances.

  7. Örvar Atli Says:

    Awesome. The view from Aguille du Midi is spetacular and the contruction as whole is amazing.

  8. Matt Harvey Matt Harvey Says:

    Wow what an amazing location - hope they built it during the summer ! ;o)

    Great shot.

  9. Lazarina Tcholeva Lazarina Tcholeva Says:

    Hi, thank you for let me see such amazing place! And a really Great pic. Well done (Bravo!)!

  10. Pauline Jones Pauline Jones Says:

    What a place to have dinner.

  11. Marie Dunphy Harding Says:

    Is this for real? How ‘on earth’ do you get to it?
    I’ve never seen anything like this!

    It’s surprising that only your “old medium” froze!

  12. planet lover Says:

    Dizzying… Thanks for taking us there. That’s about as close as I want to get to it :(

  13. Age Age Says:

    I’m guessing you call it Heaven’s Door because of it’s heighth? Beautiful picture by the way!

  14. Sue Gagnon Says:

    This is truly an AMAZING photograph in many respects! What an AWESOME place, picture, vista, and title, by the way! Very well done!

  15. Renee Renee Says:

    Incredible photo! thanks for sharing :)

  16. jacques bégin Says:

    Real nice and eerie in a beautiful and magical way. It send me an image of a giant liner navigating through a sea of clouds with a parallel universe for destination. Amazing to think that so many of us are brain washed to go to heaven when heaven can be also here if we only put down our swords and share.

  17. Bobbi Says:

    Mark this one as “favorite”!

  18. Varanasi Says:

    Surreal! At first I thought it must be in Tibet.

  19. Jesse G. Says:

    Don’t slip…

    Great shot!

  20. ollie Says:

    Incredible shot! its like a frozen restaurant floating in the sky..

  21. Charlena Charlena Says:

    what a fantastic shot, captured beautifully

  22. Emilie Says:

    This is a beautiful link between Earth(shots) and Sky… I love it ! And its author…

  23. TomBrooklyn Says:

    This seems to be some kind of double exposure or reworked photo. I don’t think there is any such place as this.

  24. Jacob Jacob Says:

    Awesome shot!

  25. yasmin yasmin Says:

    Amazing photo! thanks for sharing :)

  26. laurens laurens Says:

    incredible

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