Posts from 2021
Bluebells in Switzerland
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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
Great Asby Scar
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Leaving the familiar fells and valleys of the Lake District to visit a less familiar part of northern England.
The wilds of Scotland
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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
A nerve-wracking trip to Birg cable-car station
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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,
Uferweg Iseltwald
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A pedestrian-only footpath through the woods and cliffs on the southern shore of Lake Brienz.
Birg to Mürren through the clouds
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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.)
The winds from the south
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Southerly winds form cloud waterfalls in the high mountains of the Swiss Alps.
Taking our bikes further afield
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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!
Schloss Habsburg
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A mighty family rose from a little castle amongst the fields in Swiss canton Aargau.
Strandbad Rheinfelden
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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, which is closed because of the pandemic.)
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.
The sight of the Sound of Music
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The beautiful cinematography of The Sound of Music, which I watched for the first time this year.
Dampfschiff Spiez passing Faulensee
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The steamship “Spiez” – known colloquially and diminutively as “Das Spiezerli” thanks to its small size – en route from Thun to Interlaken for the first time after nearly five years of restoration work.
Wengen to Kleine Scheidegg
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The hike from Wengen to Kleine Scheidegg, high above the Lauterbrunnen Valley in Switzerland, is beautiful. But parts of the route are an absolute killer.
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The view from Eni Lavaux
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Finally photographing a long-awaited evening view across Lausanne, thanks to getting the right angle with my drone.
Stac Pollaidh: “the pinnacle of the pool river”
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Hiking in the wild, remote and dramatic landscape of the north-west of Scotland last autumn.
Unter dem Birg to Engstligenalp
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Time-lapse sequence of the cable car ride from the valley station to the mountain station.
