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by Mark Howells-Mead

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  • Hiking amongst the glacial screes

    Hiking amongst the glacial screes

    14th September 2022
    Drone photography and video, Hiking and walking

    Heading to the heights of the Furka Pass to hike into the glacial screes.

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  • View from an easyJet plane window, 2009

    Geneva to Gatwick, 2009

    10th September 2022
    Documentary photography

    Four shots from the window of an easyJet flight from Switzerland to England in 2009.

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  • Catania railway station in 2009

    Train to Messina

    9th September 2022
    Travel

    Clearing out a hard drive, I came across a file with some notes made whilst travelling in Sicily in 2009.

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  • Random things in July

    3rd September 2022
    Reviews and random things

    Hiking and keeping cool in the mid-summer alpine heat.

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Easier alternative string translation using Advanced Custom Fields

    25th August 2022
    WordPress

    There are several translation plugins in the WordPress ecosystem, each of which has its strengths and weaknesses when it comes to translating and managing multilingual content. There is also the brilliant plugin Loco Translate, which I’ve been using for a very long time to translate English strings in plugins and themes. (Usually German, French and […]

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  • WordPress expert Mark Howells-Mead

    Using data stores to get custom user capabilities in WordPress

    11th August 2022
    WordPress

    Finding out custom user capabilities via the REST API, to determine whether or not to add a custom sidebar in the Gutenberg block editor.

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  • Random things in June

    1st August 2022
    Reviews and random things

    My main photographic focus in June was our trip to Brittany in north-western France.

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  • Lunchtime dip

    15th July 2022
    Life (and how to live it)

    When it used to get hot back in the days when I used to work in Brienz, a lunchtime dip in the freezing waters of Lake Brienz was the thing. When I worked in Bern, I used to go to the river with colleagues and float along for 20 minutes or so to cool down. […]

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  • Funnels for non-existent rainwater

    7th July 2022
    Nature

    I love that the pumpkin leaves are shaped like little funnels, to catch and redirect the rainwater. Now all we need is some rainwater.

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  • Passers-by

    20th June 2022
    Documentary photography

    Sitting on the steps outside one of the shops in Bern’s Marktgasse a couple of weeks ago, watching the world go by.

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  • Random things in May

    31st May 2022
    Reviews and random things

    May is a funny month for me. The countryside is green and lush, with lots of flowers in the meadows and a pleasant mix of cooling rain and warming sunshine, but I often feel a little frustration because the higher mountains are often still covered with slushy snow. This year, I’ve been spending a lot […]

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  • Random things in April

    16th May 2022
    Documentary photography, Reviews and random things

    It’s been a while since I thought of sharing anything on my website. Things have been very busy, both with work, trips here and there and with getting our balcony ready for summer. Instead of waffling on, I thought I’d try a new approach for a change: a brief visual review of what I got […]

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  • Random things in March

    31st March 2022
    Documentary photography, Reviews and random things

    As the previous post for April went down well, I thought I’d work backwards and start adding a few new little galleries of photos to show what I’ve been up to each month. Here’s March 2022 in pictures.

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  • Too early for tulips

    28th March 2022
    Landscape photography

    We travelled to western Switzerland last weekend, primarily to visit the small British supermarket in Gland and the tulip festival in Morges. Although the festival has been advertised and the tents and visitor facilities were already set up, the tulips were lamentably still a way from flowering, so I made do with photographing the daffodils […]

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  • Eigergletscher to Alpiglen

    27th March 2022
    Hiking and walking

    I was keen to do more winter hiking this year, and although winter seems to have flown by, I did manage to get out into the snow more often than in previous years. Most recently, we got the big cable-car up from Grindelwald to Eigergletscher with the intention of then getting the short train connection […]

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  • Urban nature

    26th March 2022
    Documentary photography

    Walking by the river in Bern, where the views and scenes are more interesting than beautiful. (At least, at this time of year and under uninspiring weather conditions.)

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  • Age catching up

    12th March 2022
    Life (and how to live it)

    I had a busy week. Two work projects are due for completion soon and because I felt that I was behind on them both, I decided to go back to the computer after dinner and work on them. I used to work late into the night when I was first establishing my career here, and […]

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  • Sunset at the lake

    12th March 2022
    Documentary photography

    You can tell that I’ve enjoyed myself when I come home from a walk or a day out with a set of photos. Here are four from a chilly but lovely winter sunset on the shores of Lac Léman last weekend. I’ve loved square-format images since I started taking photos with a medium-format film camera […]

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  • Île de Peilz

    8th March 2022
    Landscape photography, Panoramic photography

    I like unusual things and the tiny natural island around 500 metres from the lake shore at Villeneuve, on Lac Léman, certainly fits that bill.

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  • Cable car passing the woods, Mürren

    Random things in February

    28th February 2022
    Panoramic photography, Reviews and random things

    Mainly speaking, the month of February is a cold one, when my thoughts start turning to days out and summer temperatures. That being said, I still managed to get out on some trips, with the main goal of getting some exercise.

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  • Things which draw my eye

    26th February 2022
    Documentary photography

    Nail-polish applied to the roots of a tree. Sure. Why not?

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