Posts from the category Documentary photography

  • Do what you love for the happiness it brings

    Enjoying the things which make you happy in the time you have available.

  • Bern, 2024

    Taking a brain break by being where there are interesting scenes to ponder.

  • Second attempt

    The single arrival of the day from Merligen on the BLS winter cruise schedule. The captain had to reverse and re-dock at the ship jetty in Faulensee because he buggered up the approach.

  • The coffee cups at Ikea are half the size of regular mugs, but if you arrive at the café 15 minutes before closing time on a Saturday, there’s no time to take advantage of the free refills. On the other hand, you don’t have to sit amongst screaming kids and their minders, so…

  • Pool of light in the back lanes near Faulensee

    Reminding myself that although mountain hiking season is over now, there are still wonderful opportunities to walk and clear the mind.

  • Dählhölzli zoo, Bern

    Opinionated photographs from January 2011.

  • Lighthouse at Tarbat Ness

    Pottering at home, a trip to Scotland and photographing wild flowers in Switzerland.

  • Paddle steamer on Lac Léman, passing Lutry

    It seems as though there will be a fair amount of travelling for me this year, both around Switzerland (which is pretty normal for Jo and for me in our time off), and abroad. After visiting England in March, I was back again in April to visit Mum; later in the month, I rode the…

  • This month’s set of photos is especially random, but that’s the whole point; not just of the ongoing photo series here on my website, but also in my life. The more varied and random, the better for me.

  • Award-winning bathing beach, Sheerness

    Grot

    One of my hobbies is visiting less-than-salubrious destinations to take interesting photographs.

  • The “random things” posts are primarily about random stuff I’ve seen in the course of a month. The random stuff I saw in December was spread over four countries.

  • February 2023 was cold and seemingly endless.

  • Pools of light

    A good pool of light and a wet street will always draw my camera more quickly than a quaint festive scene.

  • Visiting the former home of John Ruskin, near Coniston.

  • View from an easyJet plane window, 2009

    Four shots from the window of an easyJet flight from Switzerland to England in 2009.

  • Passers-by

    Sitting on the steps outside one of the shops in Bern’s Marktgasse a couple of weeks ago, watching the world go by.

  • It’s been a while since I thought of sharing anything on my website. Things have been very busy, both with work, trips here and there and with getting our balcony ready for summer. Instead of waffling on, I thought I’d try a new approach for a change: a brief visual review of what I got…

  • As the previous post for April went down well, I thought I’d work backwards and start adding a few new little galleries of photos to show what I’ve been up to each month. Here’s March 2022 in pictures.

  • Urban nature

    Walking by the river in Bern, where the views and scenes are more interesting than beautiful. (At least, at this time of year and under uninspiring weather conditions.)

  • You can tell that I’ve enjoyed myself when I come home from a walk or a day out with a set of photos. Here are four from a chilly but lovely winter sunset on the shores of Lac Léman last weekend. I’ve loved square-format images since I started taking photos with a medium-format film camera…

  • Nail-polish applied to the roots of a tree. Sure. Why not?