Permanent Tourist

WordPress development and photography by Mark Howells-Mead

Posts from January 2010

  • London Life

    Since moving away from the UK, I miss jaunts into London, which now only take place once a year at most. A German resident of London, Konstantin Binder, provides me with a dose of the kind of exploration I would do, were I still in the UK.

  • Apple announced the new iPad today. My first thoughts on how I, as a photographer and media developer, may be able to use such a device.

  • Windswept

    I dragged my family across a small island off the south coast of Pembrokeshire in South Wales in the rain to see a lighthouse. What a wretch I am.

  • A winter weekend

    In January of 2005 – five years ago this week – Jo visited me in Switzerland for the first time. These photos show our wonderful time together.

  • A set of panoramic photographs of Taormina, an ancient town built high on the cliffs of Sicily’s eastern coast.

  • I am auctioning off a single print of one of my photographs to the highest bidder to support the earthquake victims in Haiti.

  • Jo learned to ski in Scotland when she was younger. After living here for several years now, she decided that it was about time to give cross-country skiing another try and give me my first shot at trying, as I’m not keen on regular skiing and had never tried cross-country before.

  • The Big Freeze

    On our way back to Edinburgh from Angus, we stopped off at Kinross to see the impressive expanse of Loch Leven, frozen and covered with snow.

  • A friend asked me over the Christmas break how I manage to retain my drive for taking photos. I gave it some thought over the past few days and thought that my answer might be useful or interesting to other photographers or artists and so here it is.

  • Letham in the Snow

    We spent much of the Christmas and New Year break in Letham, a small town in Angus, Scotland, where Jo grew up. Just after New Year, we took Archie, the family dog, for a walk around the town and Jo showed me places from her childhood as the evening set in and more snow fell.

  • We took a diversion off the motorway to explore the wintry countryside and came across the highest village in Scotland, buried in snow.

  • Takeoff from Edinburgh airport

    A five minute video shot out of the window of an easyJet flight leaving Edinburgh and banking west over the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

  • Short observational notes taken on a flight between Edinburgh and Geneva.