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Arosa Road
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When I read online that the road leading up into the mountains from Chur to Arosa was particularly windy, I scoffed, having ascended the mountain passes on many occasions.
Hotel Seehof, Arosa
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Jo and I visited Graubünden (again) for our anniversary this year, and settled on the Hotel Seehof in Arosa.
The Weather Project
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Visiting Olafur Eliasson’s “The Weather Project” with family, at the Tate Modern gallery in London. The figures in the top of the picture are reflected in the mirror-like ceiling of the vast turbine hall.
Film is fab
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A new blog “find”, containing both appealing medium-format film photographs and a plethora of technical information, by Ashley Pomeroy.
Incomplete without consumerism
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I spent a couple of days in London in June, primarily to spend time taking documentary photographs on the streets I used to pound when I lived in England. One of the things which strikes me is how so many things seem to be commercialized by supermarkets: from the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee to the simple
Keeping your data safe
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Using a mixture of password segments stored digitally and a second segment stored manually, access to online systems becomes highly secure.
First Fliers
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Jo’s parents have been with us for the past couple of weeks and one of their requests was to visit First, the mountain area above the eastern side of the Grindelwald valley. To see the views, you might think? No. To feed their ornithological needs and visit the alpine choughs? No. To hang from a zip
Good things
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Cool new techniques for creating responsive websites and for saving you loads of time when writing CSS are helping me to rebuild the technical infrastructure of this (and other) websites.
Goodbye Chris
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Chris Moyles hosts his last radio show on BBC Radio 1 after 15 years with the station.
Ezybox Speed-Light
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First experiences with my new ultra-compact and ultra-light Ezybox Speed-Light softbox.
London’s new cable car
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An eight minute ride across the River Thames in London… by cable car.
Nazi Party Congress Hall, Nuremberg
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When we visited southern Germany in 2011, one of the places I wanted to see was the former Nazi Party rally ground on the outskirts of Nuremberg. The site is one of huge historic importance and although all of the identifying insignia have been absent for nearly seventy years, much of the foundations and layout…
New book of my photos available
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My first non-personal book is available for preview and purchase in my Blurb online bookstore.
I was at the Street Parade dance festival on the streets of Zurich again this past weekend. This first set of photos shows some of the participants of the floats, as they wait patiently to take their position in the parade which leads through the centre of the city.
Welcome to Switzerland (conditionally)
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(Post originally begun in 2011.) Along with most other households in Switzerland, I received a pre-printed flyer from the Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP) at the end of last week. (Obivously the person delivering them didn’t bother to check the name on the post box, in our case.) The flyer has been timed to coincide with the…
Nadav Kander talks about his portraiture
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Photographer Nadav Kander talks about his portraiture in this 13 minute film.
C’était un Rendezvous
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One of my favourite pieces of non-fiction film: an eight and a half minute sequence filmed by Claude Lelouch on the streets of Paris in 1976.
