Parade of Fire
A procession of some serious fire through the narrow streets of Liestal, near Basel, to mark the approaching end of winter.
The Clootie Well
Travelling, even in my own country, has given me much more interest in the places which many pass by, giving them little thought as they are so familiar. A small Forestry Commission car park at the side of the road not far [...]
Remembering the floods from 2005
I drove through Brienz this weekend for the first time in a couple of years, and roadworks near the office where I used to work reminded me of the terrible events of August 2005.
Ten more of the best
Following on from – and inspired by – the feedback I received from my aunt about what she felt to be ten of my best online portraits, my Mum sent me her list recently in comparison. I find the differences interesting and [...]
The Way to Green Crag
I don’t usually bother celebrating my birthday in any great fashion, but as I turned forty this year, I decided to make an exception and plan a short break away with Jo, so that I could look back on the arrival of [...]
Point and shoot (or as near as it gets)
Back at the end of 2010, I began a much-researched hunt for a new camera; the successor to the D80 which had served me well until then. As part of my research, I’d looked at small interchangeable lens cameras like the GF1 [...]
Coniston Water
In all the times I’ve visited the Cumbrian Lake District in the north of England, I’d only ever been to Coniston Water once before. After all of the dramatic, deep lakes lined with craggy fells and forests, the long, flat, placid body [...]
Longines Factory, Saint-Imier
Auguste Agassiz formed a partnership in 1832 which was to become a company carrying one of the most reknowned names in Swiss watchmaking and timekeeping. Developing the company to use work-at-home labour, a system which had been in use since the eighteenth [...]
Thunersee below zero
When the temperature of the air is markedly lower than the temperature of the water in the lake, mist rises from the surface and creates a truly eerie effect. Such was the case today, when continued winter conditions in Switzerland dropped the [...]