Verzasca Dam
Just North of the Swisstalian border, I stopped off to marvel at the Verzasca Dam (also known as the Contra Dam), a curved concrete monstrosity made famous by the 1995 James Bond movie GoldenEye, and now a Mecca for bungee jumpers all over the World.
It's a dramatic piece of engineering, plunging 220m from Lago di Vogorno into the valley below, where Lago di Maggiore lies some 1.2 miles downstream. I'm not great with heights, so just standing next to the bungee platform made my head spin.
These photographs were taken with my Canon EOS 5D Mark IV and the extraordinary Canon 35 mm f/1.4 L II USM .
About the photographer
Alex Nichol is an amateur photographer based in the UK dabbling with landscape, travel and documentary. Alex has shot with pretty much everything, from classic 35mm and medium format film cameras from Zenit, Leica, Hasselblad and Rolleiflex, to digital SLR and mirrorless systems from Leica, Sony, Canon, Panasonic and Olympus. He is currently shooting with the Fujifilm X System.
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