Posts from the category Nature
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To hell with warm, sunny days. Let the squalls come.
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Exceptionally low water levels at Lake Thun, as part of a four-year routine.
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Autumn: the most photogenic of seasons.
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Neighbours who worry about fruit, and nature which gets there first.
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I love that the pumpkin leaves are shaped like little funnels, to catch and redirect the rainwater. Now all we need is some rainwater.
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In which I tell a short tale about cannibals.
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Last of the swallows for this year, I suspect. I haven’t seen them around much this year at home, but there were dozens out yesterday, feeding their young before their long journey. (We have a perfectly-positioned telephone wire near our balcony, so it’s a great spot to watch and to photograph them.)
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Until I moved to Switzerland, my interest in photography was mainly confined to recording what I was up to; from time with friends and family, to documentary photography on the streets of London and capturing scenes when I was on holiday. I had begun getting interested in landscape photography after a few visits to the…
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Southerly winds form cloud waterfalls in the high mountains of the Swiss Alps.
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Because the Aletsch glacier is inevitably melting so much, the adjacent mountain ridges are beginning to destabilize.
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Low water levels in Lake Thun in winter reveal large expanses of foreshore.
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I just came across a short film I made in January and posted to YouTube at the time. Filmed with my X100 and edited quickly in iMovie, it shows the publicly accessible lake-shore nature reserve at Gwatt, some fifteen minutes’ drive from home.
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The “Nebelmeer” (lit. sea of cloud) is a fabulous meteorological phonemenon at this time of year, caused by a band of dense cloud sealing cold air beneath it in alpine valleys.