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<p>I can't believe that it has been three months since I posted a blog article. I had a wedding in the meantime, but shortly thereafter flew with my wife to Switzerland, and then to Paris. I posted the <a href="https://christopherhumphreyphotography.com/christopher-humphrey-photography/client-other-galleries/jacob-and-julie-tie-the-knot-1/">wedding pics</a> for the couple and their friends, but wrote nothing about photography till now.</p>
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<p>Switzerland was dazzling. On our first full day (June 26), I took 410 photos. The next day I took 555. As the week or so wore on, the daily number went down somewhat, as I became more familiar with what I was shooting: awe-inspiring mountains, glaciers, and valleys, sometimes in sun, sometimes in mist and shadow. (My Search-Engine-Optimization drill sergeant tells me that my sentences are too long. <em>Too bad. Read on</em>.)</p>
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<p>The first image shows  you the main street of Wengen, in the Jungfrau Region of Switzerland, looked like. We had a basement apartment on the main drag, with no view out the one window. (It was an interior courtyard where people kept bikes, etc.) However, once we walked out the door, we were greeted by geographical beauty every way we looked. From the train station to almost every part of town, we could see the Monch and the Jungfrau mountain peaks. The names are tied to a bit of folklore: the Jungfrau (the young <em>frau </em>or woman, or maiden) on the right, is protected from the Eiger (or Ogre) mountain, which is hidden to the left,  by the Monch (or Monk), which is the most prominent mountain, seen from Wengen. (It all sounds very 19th-century, but it probably goes back further.)</p>
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