Posts from 2018
A first foray into the world of the video blog, or “vlog”, which I shot while hiking in the Alps a few weeks ago.
Obstinacy got me past a viewpoint I had aimed for and gave me the opportunity to capture a wonderfully dramatic alternative image.
The major update of WordPress, scheduled for this year, will contain a brand-new and much-improved editor.
A quick tip on how to get better image results from your Mavic drone in low-light conditions.
After so many years in Switzerland, we rely on the quarter-hourly chiming of the nearest church bell to know what the time is. Or, if we’re enjoying a summer evening, quickly looking across to the other side of the village.
Adobe has, at last, added the possibility to add custom presets in the mobile version of Lightroom.
What I get out of taking the time and effort to take landscape images with a proper camera, and printing them to make proper photographs you can hold in your hand.
An interview with me which first appeared on the cubetech website in June.
It’s wonderful to find a new, photographically perfect viewpoint in a place I know so well. (Of course, on a day when I only had my smartphone with me.) Expect to see more shots from this spot in Grindelwald!
Black-and-white photos from wanderings in the Italian Cinque Terre.
A small community on the British coast, near Poole in Dorset, is a prime piece of land. Measuring just eighty-eight metres at its narrowest point, the peninsula is amongst the most expensive pieces of real estate in the world, after cities like London and Tokyo.
I love the alpine Susten Pass road and the mountain scenery there, particularly the area around the Steingletscher glacier and nearby hotel. It’s been a long time since I’ve visited in spring – before the upper reaches of the road have been cleared of snow – so Jo and I took a drive and walked…
Using a drone isn’t all about “aerial photography”, but, for me, about the ability to get better angles for photos which are otherwise out of reach.
Am WordPress Meetup in Bern am 17. April 2018 sprach Martin Steiger über die Auswirkungen der Datenschutz-Grundverordnung (DSGVO) auf Schweizer Website-Betreiber.
Time-lapse video of the cable-car ride from Grütschalp to Lauterbrunnen in Swiss canton Bern.
Great, simple tips for getting better results from Adobe Lightroom.
After a lot of deliberation, a few months’ saving, and a lot of review videos and articles, I decided to buy a drone.
Many developers complain that WordPress is an outdated system, relying on old code for the sake of the widest range of possible support. I see that as one of the advantages of WordPress.
