Permanent Tourist

The personal website of Mark Howells-Mead

Posts from the category Documentary photography

  • Heavy, violent storms are sweeping across central Switzerland in the evenings at the moment, with the worst one bringing lumps of hail the size of chicken eggs. The hail was falling so heavily and lying so thick on the streets, that it was still around the following morning in Interlaken, where the damage was most…

  • More of my photos from Saturday’s meet-up of Swiss Flickr members at the Festival de la Cité in Lausanne are online here.

  • More photos from yesterday’s Giessbach Meeting in Interlaken are online at the German-language website of the local newspaper.

  • Going against the “no photography” rules in the National Portrait Gallery, I simply had to ask this man to pose for a portrait. As we walked down the stairs together, he told me that he had stopped off in London on his way home to America after a month-long tour of India, where he had…

  • The Burning Bushes

    More from this series – with Jo, Bruno, Nick and Ilona at Uetliberg and in Zürich over the weekend – in my flickr.com photo stream.

  • The café/restaurant at the end of the pier in Bournemouth, taken on a Sunday evening.

  • Chäsbrätel

    Winter is upon us again, which means we can eat Chäsbrätel as much as we like!

  • Family (low)

    Visiting Sarah in Bournemouth with Mum and Dad.

  • Them Again

    Almost every day, without fail by fine weather, this woman walks with her child in a pushchair along the lakeside path opposite my office. Every time, the child is wearing her hair in bunches and a pair of oversized dark sunglasses and they pause on these rocks for the mother to take photographs. The mother…