Posts from 2012
Brienz (no, the other one)
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The “other” village of Brienz, which we came across by chance when on holiday in Graubünden recently.
Inspired by Adams
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A small set of black and white landscape photographs, shot on an overcast day in the Lauterbrunnen Valley.
AvatarDay 2012
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The date is out for AvatarDay 2012 in Bern, when you can get a free portrait taken by Barbara Hess.
Arosa Road
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When I read online that the road leading up into the mountains from Chur to Arosa was particularly windy, I scoffed, having ascended the mountain passes on many occasions.
Hotel Seehof, Arosa
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Jo and I visited Graubünden (again) for our anniversary this year, and settled on the Hotel Seehof in Arosa.
The Weather Project
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Visiting Olafur Eliasson’s “The Weather Project” with family, at the Tate Modern gallery in London. The figures in the top of the picture are reflected in the mirror-like ceiling of the vast turbine hall.
Film is fab
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A new blog “find”, containing both appealing medium-format film photographs and a plethora of technical information, by Ashley Pomeroy.
Incomplete without consumerism
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I spent a couple of days in London in June, primarily to spend time taking documentary photographs on the streets I used to pound when I lived in England. One of the things which strikes me is how so many things seem to be commercialized by supermarkets: from the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee to the simple
Keeping your data safe
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Using a mixture of password segments stored digitally and a second segment stored manually, access to online systems becomes highly secure.
First Fliers
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Jo’s parents have been with us for the past couple of weeks and one of their requests was to visit First, the mountain area above the eastern side of the Grindelwald valley. To see the views, you might think? No. To feed their ornithological needs and visit the alpine choughs? No. To hang from a zip
Good things
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Cool new techniques for creating responsive websites and for saving you loads of time when writing CSS are helping me to rebuild the technical infrastructure of this (and other) websites.
Goodbye Chris
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Chris Moyles hosts his last radio show on BBC Radio 1 after 15 years with the station.
Ezybox Speed-Light
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First experiences with my new ultra-compact and ultra-light Ezybox Speed-Light softbox.
London’s new cable car
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An eight minute ride across the River Thames in London… by cable car.
Nazi Party Congress Hall, Nuremberg
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When we visited southern Germany in 2011, one of the places I wanted to see was the former Nazi Party rally ground on the outskirts of Nuremberg. The site is one of huge historic importance and although all of the identifying insignia have been absent for nearly seventy years, much of the foundations and layout…
Portrait and lighting workshop in Lausanne
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Yesterday’s free portrait and lighting workshop at the Rolex Learning Centre in Lausanne was an unmitigated success, with just the right amount of photographers taking part to allow everyone to make new friends, work well together, and come up with some great shots.
