Freezing cold in Geneva, Switzerland !

Deleted17 · Feb 5, 2012

Looks like cake frosting. Are their chocolate cakes under all of those objects?

These shots are spectacular. There were also shots on dpr of the Black Sea frozen over. We live where it is supposed to snow all winter, yet we're still seeing bare ground... I'm not complaining! Sorry you have to deal with it this winter...

This is all we have in New Hampshire, USA:

rhlpetrus · Feb 5, 2012

Amazing images, incredibly cold. I checked weather reports and it's been the coldest ever in some areas in Germany, France, likely in SL as well.

Aqui está 35C=95F.

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nkarasev · Feb 5, 2012

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So how in these conditions long does it take for canon shooters to turn into something like this:

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Nik

JP Scherrer · Feb 5, 2012

...knew it was going to be cold... he got there one week before, to be sure he could shoot something !

...and he brought a big telelens, to keep away from the cold !

ROTFLMAO !!!!!!

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rhlpetrus · Feb 5, 2012

Same area:

http://noticias.uol.com.br/album/111216friohemisferionorte_album.htm?abrefoto=73#fotoNav=73

Maybe that's you!

http://noticias.uol.com.br/album/111216friohemisferionorte_album.htm?abrefoto=73#fotoNav=71

Or the guy in your image was the shooting these.

JP Scherrer said:
...knew it was going to be cold... he got there one week before, to be sure he could shoot something !

...and he brought a big telelens, to keep away from the cold !

ROTFLMAO !!!!!!

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JP Scherrer · Feb 5, 2012

rhlpetrus said:
Same area:

http://noticias.uol.com.br/album/111216friohemisferionorte_album.htm?abrefoto=73#fotoNav=73

Yes, exact same place !

...but what an AWFUL image !!! I would NEVER accept to publish something like that !!!

rhlpetrus said:
Maybe that's you!

http://noticias.uol.com.br/album/111216friohemisferionorte_album.htm?abrefoto=73#fotoNav=71

Naaaan ! I had a long coat ! Which got completely SOAKED by the waves jumping over the quay ! (I checked this morning... it was still wet !)

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lock · Feb 5, 2012

Is the most bizar one. What an ice show !

We had our spell of the cold weather too. Saturday morning record lows of -23C were measured. At my place it was -20C. Last night it quickly dropped to -17C again, but clouds and wind made it a bit less cold. At daytime, in the sun it was never much warmer than -5C. It wasn't cold however, because there was hardly any wind.
But today at 1600 hours it dropped to -9C again... Freaking cold.

lock

rondhamalam · Feb 5, 2012

Amazing
I've never seen anything like that before

JP Scherrer said:
...but worth going out for a few shots !

We're just having again a conjunction of very low temperature (-12 C. 10 F.) with strong northerly winds, which gives a "comfort level of (-20 C. / -4 F.)...

Sooooo.... I went to the lakeside to see what was going on !

As usual, the EXIF datas are embedded in the images. To see the 1200x800 originally uploaded, click within the images !

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VivaLasVegas · Feb 5, 2012

That feels really freezing cold, thanks for sharing.

rhlpetrus · Feb 5, 2012

Agree, yours are much better, di you sell them?
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JP Scherrer · Feb 6, 2012

rhlpetrus said:
Agree, yours are much better, di you sell them?

No, not yet...

But after the first images of 2005, I did sell quite a few of them... this allowed me to renew my photo gear (several times

!

Maybe this time I can make some $$$ with the newer ones too... We'll see !

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JP Scherrer · Feb 6, 2012

...and as the weather forecast says that this extreme cold will stay active for a few more days (weeks?) and very strong winds will hit us again on tuesday/wednesday, I better get ready...

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DavidGBK · Feb 6, 2012

Is that your image on the UK Daily Telegraph website Pics of the Day?

David

JP Scherrer · Feb 6, 2012

DavidGBK said:
Is that your image on the UK Daily Telegraph website Pics of the Day?

No ! I just shot them for my pleasure... BUT, looking at some of them in the newspapers, I beleive I could have sold them better ! There is one in particular, that I saw in the Daily Telegraph AND in a news agency in Brazil (thanks to "rhlpetrus" !), which has a TOTALLY OFF WHITE BALANCE... and it's been distributed "as is" all over the world ! What a blØØdy shame !

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mgblack74 · Feb 6, 2012

Except we're a nice shade of puke brown just about everywhere. This is our warmest winter that I can remember. With only a handful of days below 0C/32F. Nice pics though!
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Deleted-pending · Feb 6, 2012

The cold strikes again, like 6 years ago ?

Great shots !

JP Scherrer · Feb 6, 2012

FTH said:
The cold strikes again, like 6 years ago ?

Great shots !

Thanks for looking !

In fact, it was not as hard as in january 2005 ! ...and there weren't as many cars, and particularly boats damaged ! The weather forecast had warned us more than a week before about that, so many people living on the lakeside didn't park their car there... and I guess a lot of boat owners moved their boats away...

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peterclark55 · Feb 6, 2012

Superb shots, looks like ice rain. Its cold even in Provence, minus 11 this morning and all is frozen over:

Colette's Canon G10 shots.
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jfk · Feb 6, 2012

HAAAA!!!
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JP Scherrer · Feb 7, 2012

....the houses are not really "thought" for extreme cold in the southern part of Europe, so -10 C. must feel very uncomfortable, even inside the house !

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