Surprised by Venice
We took advantage of a much-reduced number of tourists in July to visit Venice. I came away with an unexpected number of good and unique photographs.
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First signs of autumn on Spiezberg
A lunchtime walk by the vineyards in the sunshine, ten years after moving away from nearby.
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Last of the swallows
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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Bluebells in Switzerland
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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Great Asby Scar
Leaving the familiar fells and valleys of the Lake District to visit a less familiar part of northern England.
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The wilds of Scotland
Even after the many miles of road travel to the populated north of Scotland, the next stage out into the northern Highlands, delineated by the huge Great Glen between Oban and Inverness, is something else entirely. Leaving dual carriageways behind on the Black Isle and heading west, especially during inclement weather, both the roads and the landscape become increasingly […]
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A nerve-wracking trip to Birg cable-car station
My only cable-car trip into the high Alps this past winter season was in February. Webcam confirmation of a fabulous cloud inversion encouraged me to get into the mountains after a long abstinence. I expected the visit to be be a nerve-wracking experience thanks to so many people wearing their coronavirus face-masks around their chins, […]
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Uferweg Iseltwald
A pedestrian-only footpath through the woods and cliffs on the southern shore of Lake Brienz.
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Birg to Mürren through the clouds
I’m looking forward to the new cable-cars next year. I hope that they’ll have dirt-repellent, scratch-resistant windows. (Sequence filmed in February 2021.)
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The winds from the south
Southerly winds form cloud waterfalls in the high mountains of the Swiss Alps.
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Taking our bikes further afield
Finally got a tow bar fitted to the car, which means we can mount a bike rack, which means we can take our bikes further afield at last!
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Schloss Habsburg
A mighty family rose from a little castle amongst the fields in Swiss canton Aargau.
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Strandbad Rheinfelden
About as close as we can get to visiting Germany at the moment; the car park next to the Rhine on the edge of Switzerland. (The river marks the northern border.)
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Using React and WordPress to build an interactive, performant single-page application
More and more website development takes place using Javascript these days, whether within the WordPress CMS or as part of a streamlined frontend experience. I abandoned jQuery at the end of 2019 and began learning React in earnest. New projects in 2021 are allowing me to use these new skills for some interactive website features.
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