Europe in the 90s as seen through my lens

Well, not exactly up on Mont Blanc. Above where you stand are Grépon, Aiguille du Plan, Aiguille du Midi.
Thank you for the clarification. The one memory from that day that truly stands out in my mind was riding in the aerial tram from Chamonix up and back down — neither me or my buddy Bill were at all fond of it! Something that neither of us would admit to one another until later that night over beers as we looked back on the day. It did not help that they left the rusting carcass of the previous tram structure up on the mountainside, which managed to look rather ominous.

While up there above Chamonix we encountered a number of paragliders and I managed to capture some of them on film:

paragliderA.jpg

paragliderB.jpg

More to come...
 
Thanks for the kind words all. My slides look so much better than what I seem to be capable of capturing with the process I am using. I was disappointed enough that I almost decided not to share. But I suppose that not every image needs to be perfect to provide some value. I'm glad that some of you are enjoying these scans.
 
Switzerland, as I so vividly recall it from my visits in the late '60s and again in 1980.

Some things almost never change. I'm now too old for all that travel (I live in Australia), but the memories endure.

Many thanks, OP. Marvellous images. Kodachrome had it all going for it, but we lost it. Huh.
 
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Switzerland, as I so vividly recall it from my visits in the late '60s and again in 1980.

Some things almost never change. I'm now too old for all that travel (I live in Australia), but the memories endure.

Many thanks, OP. Marvellous images. Kodachrome had it all going for it, but we lost it. Huh.
But at least you were fortunate enough to visit at some point in your life. There are countless others who never get such a chance, which is a shame as I think the world would be a better place overall if more people were able to travel. I'm very grateful for any traveling that I have done in my lifetime. Yet I don't doubt that I would have benefitted from even more.

As for Kodachrome, to be honest I really didn't know any better. I used it because it was what I was most familiar with. But in my 2nd trip to Europe I believe I used Fujichrome Velvia exclusively (images to come later in this thread).
 
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