Writing
People who know me (or even some who visit this website on a regular occasion) will probably know that I like to waffle on sometimes. These posts are those in which the style is more about a story or the desire to write creatively, than to stick those thousand words into an image.
Inspiration vs. reason
Tuesday, 12th January 2010 • Individual photographs, Landscape photography, Photography, Technique, Writing • No comments
A friend asked me over the Christmas break how I manage to retain my drive for taking photos. I gave it some thought over the past few days and thought that my answer might be useful or interesting to other photographers or artists and so here it is.
Notes from a flight home
Tuesday, 5th January 2010 • From the Road, Travel, Writing • No comments
Short observational notes taken on a flight between Edinburgh and Geneva.
There by the carousel
Wednesday, 2nd December 2009 • Life, Writing • No comments
It was odd being here, disembarking with no passport check after two flights to collect baggage he had last seen on the French border. It looked as if there were [...]
Minarets and missiles
Wednesday, 25th November 2009 • Advertising, Life, Writing • 7 comments
A rare article in which I express how I feel on the subject of national referendum and the political process in Switzerland. This article has been inspired by a prominent national campaign on the subject of the proposed national ban on the construction of Islamic minarets.
In Transit
Tuesday, 24th November 2009 • Travel, Writing • No comments
An attempt at the first in a series of 50 word short stories, inspired by my trip to Scotland to meet Jo in 2004.
Things I could’ve photographed this morning, if only they’d happened
Wednesday, 11th November 2009 • From the Road, Life, Travel, Writing • 2 comments
A greengrocer selling her wares at the side of the road starts throwing cabbages at a father and son standing at her stall without bicycles but wearing cycling helmets.
A carriage [...]
One little soldier, marching around Bern
Tuesday, 30th June 2009 • Life, Writing • No comments
I’ve recently joined Jo in a drive towards more fitness and have rescinded the use of tram transport in and around Bern in favour of foot power.
A Sun, Drowning
Monday, 22nd September 2008 • Writing • No comments
As office workers and shop girls sway home from the city on the dusty local train, the sun reaches out orange tendrils of light. Plucking ineffectually at the clouds, trying [...]
The Wrath of Nature
Thursday, 7th August 2008 • Writing • 1 comment
As the sky prepares itself for evening, darkening through shades of blue and colouring more and more from the day’s greyness, the cloud in the distance becomes more dense; a [...]
Newspaper publishing in today’s online world
Monday, 30th June 2008 • Work, Writing • No comments
I joined a newspaper company in 2001 to help maintain and develop a newspaper CMS system, which the development manager began creating on his own in 1994. In the past [...]
Headbanging
Monday, 30th June 2008 • From the Road, Writing • No comments
A man, tired, carries his daughter onto the train as she rests her head on his shoulder and sucks her thumb. The train picks up speed and the man stands, [...]
There’s more to life than photography
Tuesday, 17th June 2008 • Photography, Writing • No comments
A remote farmhouse on the way to Mallaig, Scotland, photographed in 2005
There are times, now and again, when I wonder what the point is in taking photographs. I mean, there’s [...]
