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
Website: www.pebourgouin.com
Heaven’s Door by Pierre-Emmanuel Bourgouin was photo of the day on Tuesday, 30th September 2008. It is tagged Alps, France, Mountains. You can leave a comment below.
29 Comments
Katherine Lee Strassburg
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.
Rick Van Veen
Cool!
Ariel
Wow! What a location!!
Anurag
Thank You.
This is what Earthshots is all about.
I never knew such a place existed.
Technically accomplished as well.
Malta Photography
very effective shot I must say. The color density is perfect and the vividness of the shot is wonderful.
Keith
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.
Örvar Atli
Awesome. The view from Aguille du Midi is spetacular and the contruction as whole is amazing.
Matt Harvey
Wow what an amazing location – hope they built it during the summer ! ;o)
Great shot.
Lazarina Tcholeva
Hi, thank you for let me see such amazing place! And a really Great pic. Well done (Bravo!)!
Pauline Jones
What a place to have dinner.
Marie Dunphy Harding
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!
planet lover
Dizzying… Thanks for taking us there. That’s about as close as I want to get to it
Age
I’m guessing you call it Heaven’s Door because of it’s heighth? Beautiful picture by the way!
Sue Gagnon
This is truly an AMAZING photograph in many respects! What an AWESOME place, picture, vista, and title, by the way! Very well done!
Renee
Incredible photo! thanks for sharing
jacques bégin
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.
Bobbi
Mark this one as “favorite”!
Varanasi
Surreal! At first I thought it must be in Tibet.
Jesse G.
Don’t slip…
Great shot!
ollie
Incredible shot! its like a frozen restaurant floating in the sky..
Charlena
what a fantastic shot, captured beautifully
Emilie
This is a beautiful link between Earth(shots) and Sky… I love it ! And its author…
TomBrooklyn
This seems to be some kind of double exposure or reworked photo. I don’t think there is any such place as this.
Jacob
Awesome shot!
Pierre-Emmanuel Bourgouin
Thank you for your comments. I really appreciate them, and it is a great motivation to continue. And thank you “Earthshots”, giving us the chance to see and share such pictures.
yasmin
Amazing photo! thanks for sharing
laurens
incredible
Su
Fantastic shot another of those places to visit. Congrats
Renee
beautiful!