Posts from 2009
Driving home for Christmas
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If you’ve been following my Twitter stream today, you’ll probably know that while I should be almost in Scotland by now, I am, in fact, still on Swiss soil. After the third early start in a row, when we headed for Geneva to catch our flight to Edinburgh for a two week holiday with family,…
Out in the cold
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I pledge to take more winter landscape photos this year, after being out this evening to take some long-awaited photos of the Christmas lights in Spiez.
Permanent Tourist 2010 Calendar
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It’s been a hectic week and weekend, hence the delay in posting that I’ve released my 2010 calendar.
Snaps from the Choo Choo gig at Wasserwerk
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A few snapshots from last night’s Choo Choo gig at the Wasserwerk club in Bern.
Bern band Choo Choo celebrate 15 years of their record company this weekend with a gig at the Wasserwerk Club, and they select one of my photos to appear in national Swiss commuter paper 20 Minuten.
Portrait session in Zürich
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Photos from an all-afternoon series of portrait sessions in Zurich during September 2009, finally online as a complete set.
There by the carousel
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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 people waiting next to the carousel; perhaps she’d be one of them. Was that her? The beautiful one over there? This is a 50-word short…
Black and white Lightroom presets by MikeyG
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An example of an image processed using a simple preset available through the Lightroom Presets website.
Don’t ride the rails drunk, kids
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I woke a sleeping drunk last night, when the train to Interlaken terminated in Spiez due to the onward line being blocked. He looked at me blurrily and asked whether he needed to catch the onward replacement bus service to get to Grenoble. (Which is in France.) In other words, he’d staggered onto the wrong…
Gaudy is Good
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I love gaudiness in the U.K. at Christmas and revel in the blinking, multi-coloured tastelessness of it all. Just so long as it’s someone else’s home, not my own.
SprainTV – The Movie
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Another in my series of One Frame Movie photographs, of Bernese video podcaster Manuel “Sprain” Reinhard.
The Bear Incident
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Last weekend, reports quickly appeared on Twitter and Facebook, and thence to the local and international press, that a member of the public had apparently jumped over the fence into the new bear enclosure alongside the river Aare in Bern.
Categorization bug in WordPress
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I’ve been using WordPress for years and in the main, it’s a fantastic piece of collaborative software. However, the fact that the standalone version which is installed on one’s own server is supported mainly by community effort instead of a dedicated team means that when a particularly unusual bug crops up, it’s difficult to get…
Minarets and missiles
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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.
On the rails again
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After a fairly long break, I returned to my major photographic project recently, which takes me across the whole of the city of Bern on a quest to photograph all 219 of the tram and bus stops of the Bernmobil network.
In Transit
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An attempt at the first in a series of 50 word short stories, inspired by my trip to Scotland to meet Jo in 2004.
Ballenberg out of season
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An autumn stroll around the Ballenberg open-air museum with Jo’s parents.
iPhone and AirTunes
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How I’ve hooked up my iPhone, laptop and stereo system to have a 50Gb wireless audio system at home.
Survey of internet access speeds
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I order to better cover the needs of my visitors, I’m carrying out a simple survey of how you visit the site.
