Robert Piontek Photography

Alps Vacation 2009

Franziska and I just got back from our two week vacation in the alps. We had a nice time. I decided to take only film cameras with me on vacation! I brought enough film so that I could take one roll of 12 pictures (120 format) per day. Here are three pictures from two of the color rolls, taken with a cheap plastic camera called a Holga.

For this part of the trip Franziska and I did a 4 day backpack trip around the mountain range called Dent du Midi, which is in the French speaking part of Switzerland. It’s been more than 4 years since I’ve been backpacking, and I have never done it in bigger mountains before, so we were a little nervous about how it would work out. But it was great! And here is some more of what we saw….