World Cliffs Discussion: January 2025 Contest (page 3 of 7)

In Hawaii, water flooded the caldera and eroded the volcanic rock, forming the Hanauma Bay surrounded by beautiful cliffs.

In Hawaii, water flooded the caldera and eroded the volcanic rock, forming the Hanauma Bay surrounded by beautiful cliffs.



Hey Isabelle! Early bird today! But seriously, your photos—come on! Are you grabbing them off the internet or what? They look like a travel agency catalog!!! So jealous.

I’m pulling out my collection of cliffs from my Haute-Savoie (even if at some point during the glacial era there was water

but not in liquid water form.. 😎 Otherwise, there can be lake cliffs as long as the waves are strong enough to erode the rock. There are said to be some stunning ones at Lake Baikal, but I’m no Sylvain Tesson—I haven’t gone to see them.

I’m pulling out my cliff collection from my Haute-Savoie (even if at some point during the glacial era there was water

but not in the form of liquid water.. 😎 Otherwise, there can be lake cliffs as long as the waves are strong enough to erode the rock. There are supposedly some stunning ones at Lake Baikal, but I’m not Sylvain Tesson, so I haven’t gone to see them.

Well, if the glaciers disappeared, they didn’t just evaporate, did they? Go check out the Mer de Glace—you’ll see the damage, and it’s not from the glacial era…

PS: I loved that book (*In the Forests of Siberia* for those who don’t know the reference)

In Hawaii, water flooded the caldera and eroded the volcanic rock, forming the Hanauma Bay surrounded by beautiful cliffs.



Hello Isabelle! Early bird today! But seriously, your photos—you gotta be kidding me for a sec: Are you swiping them from the internet or what? They look like a travel agency catalog!!! I’m jealous.

Oh Bruno, I’ve been busted 😅 The big issue is finding vacation catalog photos that we *could’ve* taken ourselves 😂😂😂

That’s definitely not gonna happen to me given the quality of my shots (despite your love last month), but that’s the risk with photos posted here—you release them from their copyright ©️, right? Honestly, I’ve no idea…

That’s not gonna happen to me given the quality of my shots (despite your vote of confidence last month), but that’s the risk with photos posted here—you release them from their copyright ©️, right? Honestly, I’ve no idea…

No, Bruno, that’s not what I meant. It’s me who swipes photos from holiday brochures to show you guys 😆 But yeah, when you post photos on social media, there’s a risk of seeing them pop up in ads. It’s a big issue for professional photographers who have to “sacrifice” some shots by putting them online 😢 Personally, since I’m just an amateur and take photos for fun, it doesn’t affect me 😊

Go take a trip to the Mer de Glace

I’ve done more than one tour on the Mer de Glace, and for a long time now, which has allowed me to witness the glacier’s catastrophic evolution.

The last glacial hike (or so-called glacial hike) was about ten years ago. The Mer de Glace was nothing more than a shadow of itself, its surface reduced to a very dense network of meltwater streams. There was even a kind of glacial canyon about a hundred meters deep, at the bottom of which the subglacial torrent appeared in the open air. The Mer de Glace had literally been gutted in its center. Never seen anything like it! The relentless melting of glaciers is chilling!

Like the accelerating retreat of cliffs, to get back to the subject.

The big problem is finding vacation catalog photos that match what we could have taken

That’s why, in my opinion at least, it’s important to share photos you won’t see everywhere (like Étretat, Ponta da Piedade, or Bonifacio), unless you add an original touch—think a blanket of fog, unique lighting, massive waves, or something like that. And that’s way trickier, which I don’t have.

Hence the need, in my opinion at least, to submit photos that aren't found everywhere (Étretat, Ponta da Piedade, Bonifacio, for example), unless you add an original touch like a blanket of fog, unique lighting, gigantic waves, who knows? And that's more complicated, and I don't have it.

Love your message, you just made me delete 98% of my Great Ocean Road photos because here everything is so well-trodden that EVERYONE has the same shots But I do appreciate even classic photos of places I don’t know, just for the discovery. For example, I didn’t know there were signs in the Faroe Islands… Now *that* shot, not everyone has it!!

Cliff means beach underneath?

(No need to specify it’s not in the Faroe Islands! Sun + swimmers 😏)



How do we get down the cliff, though? (Same country—different cliff)

98% of my photos

The remaining 2% are the best, for sure! 😎

Would this one work for the contest? I took this photo at the General Staff Building Museum in Saint Petersburg:



Cliffs of Donegal (Ireland) by Rockwell Kent.

Cliffside homes that will take your breath away

You can actually live there too

Cliffside homes that will take your breath away

you can live there too

If we set aside the privatization of an exceptional site—which we’ll avoid debating here—some of them are absolutely stunning! Others would scare me silly #vertigo😅

The choice was still really tough for my second photo. We spent a week in the Algarve in winter—stunning sites all to ourselves, with weather that was sometimes pretty wild... pure bliss for a photographer







The cliff is no more... all that’s left is a rock stack by the water, still battered by the waves.

Good evening Bruno, I didn't upload my photo after my text, I don't remember how to do it!! Can you do it for me? I'm sorry, I totally forgot! Lillie

Hi Lillie (I love that name!) Even though some say I'm the leader of this discussion 😉, I don't have control over your messages. And in this section, time is running out to make changes. I suggest you create a new post with the same photo and the same number. To insert photos into the text, first you choose and upload the photo, then with the cursor in the right place, you click "Insert into text".

Somewhere on the Breton coast...