Travel

Articles relating to trips I take or travel in general.

Eiger Run

Wednesday, 24th February 2010 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, Travel, Video1 comment

A photo and video from the Eiger Run sledge route, between the mountain-top hamlet of Kleine Scheidegg and tourist centre at Grindelwald.


Read this entry in full »

London Life

Thursday, 28th January 2010 • By other people, Life, Travel2 comments

Since moving away from the UK, I miss jaunts into London, which now only take place once a year at most. A German resident of London, Konstantin Binder, provides me with a dose of the kind of exploration I would do, were I still in the UK.


Read this entry in full »

The Big Freeze

Thursday, 14th January 2010 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, Travel1 comment

On our way back to Edinburgh from Angus, we stopped off at Kinross to see the impressive expanse of Loch Leven, frozen and covered with snow.


Read this entry in full »

Trossach Mountains from the A9

Monday, 11th January 2010 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, TravelNo comments

Driving between Stirling and Perth on our way back to Angus, I saw this jaw-droppingly beautiful pink sunset over a fog-covered winter landscape alongside the main road. So, I jumped on the brakes, pulled into a farm access road and waded through calf-deep snow to get as many shots as I could before the light changed.


Read this entry in full »

Letham in the Snow

Sunday, 10th January 2010 • Scotland galleries, TravelNo comments

We spent much of the Christmas and New Year break in Letham, a small town in Angus, Scotland, where Jo grew up. Just after New Year, we took Archie, the family dog, for a walk around the town and Jo showed me places from her childhood as the evening set in and more snow fell.


Read this entry in full »

Diversion to Leadhills

Saturday, 9th January 2010 • Scotland galleries, Travel1 comment

We took a diversion off the motorway to explore the wintry countryside and came across the highest village in Scotland, buried in snow.


Read this entry in full »

Takeoff from Edinburgh airport

Thursday, 7th January 2010 • Travel, VideoNo comments

A five minute video shot out of the window of an easyJet flight leaving Edinburgh and banking west over the Firth of Forth in Scotland.


Read this entry in full »

Notes from a flight home

Tuesday, 5th January 2010 • From the Road, Travel, WritingNo comments

Short observational notes taken on a flight between Edinburgh and Geneva.


Read this entry in full »

A word is worth a thousand pictures

Tuesday, 5th January 2010 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, TravelNo comments

While we were in the U.K. this Christmas, Jo and I travelled down to the south coast of England at short notice to visit family. On our return, we headed back up along the west of England and south western Scotland, stopping off in the small town pictured here as we’d heard so much about it, but never visited.


Read this entry in full »

Permanent Tourist 2010 Calendar

Monday, 14th December 2009 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, Prints for sale, TravelNo comments

It’s been a hectic week and weekend, hence the delay in posting that I’ve released my 2010 calendar.


Read this entry in full »

Snaps from the Choo Choo gig at Wasserwerk

Saturday, 12th December 2009 • Event galleries, Friends and Family, Music, TravelNo comments

A few snapshots from last night’s Choo Choo gig at the Wasserwerk club in Bern.


Read this entry in full »

Black and white Lightroom presets by MikeyG

Tuesday, 1st December 2009 • Geek stuff, Technique, TravelNo comments

An example of an image processed using a simple preset available through the Lightroom Presets website.


Read this entry in full »

Don’t ride the rails drunk, kids

Tuesday, 1st December 2009 • Travel1 comment

I woke a sleeping drunk last night, when the train to Interlaken terminated in Spiez due to the onward line being blocked.

He looked at me blurrily and asked whether he [...]


Read this entry in full »

Gaudy is Good

Tuesday, 1st December 2009 • Individual photographs, Travel2 comments

I love gaudiness in the U.K. at Christmas and revel in the blinking, multi-coloured tastefulness of it all. Just so long as it’s someone else’s home, not my own.


Read this entry in full »

On the rails again

Wednesday, 25th November 2009 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, Travel2 comments

After a fairly long break, I returned to my major photographic project recently, which takes me across the whole of the city of Bern on a quest to photograph all 219 of the tram and bus stops of the Bernmobil network.


Read this entry in full »