Posts from the category Drone photography and video

  • Dampfschiff Spiez passing Faulensee

    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.

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  • Lac Léman at sunset

    The view from Eni Lavaux

    Finally photographing a long-awaited evening view across Lausanne, thanks to getting the right angle with my drone.

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  • Scotland at night

    Scotland at night

    Wonderful and unusual drone and time-lapse sequences from the Visit Scotland YouTube channel.

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  • Biking along the lake

    I bought a bike because it’s fun, it will improve my fitness rapidly – thereby helping me to get ready for hiking season – and because it means that I don’t have to rely on public transport or on my car for my daily trip to work and back. It also allows me to enjoy…

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  • A score out of five

    Because I take so many photos, and because I like sharing photos online, I have to be critical of my results and only share the best. Mainly, so that people don’t get bored of seeing so much of my stuff.

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  • A Day at the Schilthorn

    A Day at the Schilthorn

    Schilthorn is a fascinating location where the James Bond Movie “On Her Majesty’s Secret Service” was filmed and remains a huge tourist attraction with a revolving 360 degree restaurant. Schilthorn Piz-gloria is one of my favorite places to ski because you’re always above the clouds and the skiing is so beautiful. Words cannot describe the

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  • 2019 in review: up in the air

    2019 was my second year with a drone, and I continued to experiment with the possibilities and travel to places with the specific aim of photographing them from the air.

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  • Land of my fathers

    Visiting Wales and photographing both familiar and new views.

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  • Aerial photograph of the Aletsch glacier in Swiss canton Valais

    The unstoppable loss

    Because the Aletsch glacier is inevitably melting so much, the adjacent mountain ridges are beginning to destabilize.

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  • Blofeld’s Lair from the air

    Blofeld’s Lair from the air

    Filming and photographing at the mountain-top restaurant made famous by James Bond.

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  • Piz Gloria from the air

    This photograph is available to buy as a framed print in my Redbubble gallery.

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  • Frozen lake at Corbières

    Frozen lake at Corbières

    Aerial video sequences of a frozen lake in the sunshine, near Fribourg in Switzerland.

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  • Diemtigen Valley from the air

    Diemtigen Valley from the air

    Aerial sequences of the quiet and peaceful Diemtigal Valley in Switzerland.

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  • Lobhörner from Sulwald

    Lobhörner from Sulwald

    The longest and hardest hike in Switzerland I’ve managed to date, captured in photos and video.

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  • Greenland – Land of Ice

    Greenland – Land of Ice

    A remarkable and beautiful film of nature, landscape, ice and ocean by photographer Stefan Forster.

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  • Sardona tectonic area, Graubünden

    Sardona tectonic area, Graubünden

    My second “vlog”, from Flims in Graubünden.

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  • One of those vlog things

    One of those vlog things

    A first foray into the world of the video blog, or “vlog”, which I shot while hiking in the Alps a few weeks ago.

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  • Panoramic aerial photograph of the Tschingellochtighorn in Switzerland

    Obstinacy got me past a viewpoint I had aimed for and gave me the opportunity to capture a wonderfully dramatic alternative image.

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